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Category: Oration and Silence

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1. "The eye tells what the tongue would hide."

Chief Joseph

2. "The silence of a wise man is always meaningful."

Leo Strauss

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

3. "Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them."

Anon.

4. "The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting."

Fran Lebowitz, "Social Studies"

5. "Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he."

Publilius Syrus, "Sentences"

6. "Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own."

Carol Burnett

7. "A diplomat is someone who can speak without saying anything."

Anon.

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

8. "An open mind does not always require an open mouth."

Anon.

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

9. "The eyes of men speak words the tongue cannot pronounce."

Native American proverb

10. "Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence."

Robert Fripp

Quotations about: Art and Culture

11. "One picture is worth ten thousand words."

Frederick R. Barnard

Quotations about: Art and Culture

12. "Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."

Robert Lee Frost

13. "When you open a door, don't forget to close it. Treat your mouth accordingly."

Jewish proverb

14. "The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent."

Alfred Brendel

15. "When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes."

Victor Hugo

Quotations about: Woman and Man

16. "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

Winston Churchill

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

17. "Women like silent men. They think they're listening."

Marcel Achard

Quotations about: Woman and Man

18. "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."

Rudyard Kipling

19. "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

20. "Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker."

George Eliot, "Daniel Deronda"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

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21. "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z ; X is work, Y is play, and Z is keeping your mouth shut."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Success and Fame

22. "Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact."

George Eliot

23. "It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well, nor the judgement to hold their tongues."

Jean de La Bruyere

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

24. "People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

25. "Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence."

Joseph Joubert

Quotations about: Art and Culture

26. "To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth."

Rabindranath Tagore

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

27. "Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use."

Samuel Butler

28. "Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

29. "Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth."

Benjamin Disraeli

30. "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter - it`s the difference between a lightning bug and the lightning."

Mark Twain

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

31. "It's often not what we say that hurts, but what we don't say."

Anon.

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

32. "A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Quotations about: Woman and Man

33. "He who doesn't understand your silence will probably not understand your words."

Elbert Green Hubbard

34. "Speak only if it improves upon the silence."

Mahatma Gandhi

35. "A good listener is usually thinking about something else."

Kin Hubbard

36. "Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly."

Benjamin Franklin

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

37. "I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words."

Josh Billings

38. "We come too late to say anything which has not been said already."

Jean de La Bruyere

39. "True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary."

Heinrich Heine

40. "Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute."

Josh Billings

41. "The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart."

Joseph Joubert

42. "It is better to stay silent and let people think you are an idiot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."

Abraham Lincoln

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

43. "Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Quotations about: Egoism

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