Oration and Silence

"Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river."

Rumi

Oration and Silence

Rating: 9.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds."

Elie Wiesel

Oration and Silence

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

Henry Brooks Adams

Oration and Silence

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."

Martin Farquhar Tupper "Proverbial Philosophy"

Oration and Silence

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread."

Blaise Pascal

Oration and Silence

Time and Passing

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."

Thomas Carlyle

Oration and Silence

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Silence is more musical than any song."

Christina Georgina Rossetti

Art and Culture

Oration and Silence

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open."

Groucho Marx

Marriage

Oration and Silence

Richness and Money

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Silence gives consent, or a horrible feeling that nobody's listening."

Franklin P. Jones

Oration and Silence

Various

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."

Philip K. Dick

Oration and Silence

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 8.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"When words fail, music speaks."

Hans Christian Andersen

Art and Culture

Oration and Silence

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Speak low if you speak love."

William Shakespeare "Much Ado About Nothing"

Love

Oration and Silence

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears."

C. S. Robinson

God and Religion

Oration and Silence

Pain and Tears

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why."

Mignon McLaughin

Human

Oration and Silence

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Keep your words soft and tender because tomorrow you may have to eat them."

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Oration and Silence

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world."

Blaise Pascal

Friendship and Hostility

Oration and Silence

Rating: 3.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Friendship needs no words..."

Dag Hammarskjöld

Friendship and Hostility

Oration and Silence

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand."

Native American Proverbs

Oration and Silence

Power and Weakness

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Of those who say nothing, few are silent."

Thomas Neill

Oration and Silence

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We have two ears and one mouth so we may listen more and talk the less."

Epictetus

Oration and Silence

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To let someone speak and to listen to it - these are two entirely different questions."

Kazimierz Matan

Oration and Silence

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"In fact nothing is said that has not been said before."

Terence "Eunuchus"

Oration and Silence

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech."

William Somerset Maugham

Oration and Silence

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said."

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Family and Loneliness

Oration and Silence

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness ... It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

Mahatma Gandhi

God and Religion

Oration and Silence

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear."

Joseph Joubert

Intellect, Judgement

Oration and Silence

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A word is elegy to what it signifies."

Robert Hass "Meditation at Lagunitas"

Art and Culture

Oration and Silence

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."

Thomas Jefferson

Oration and Silence

Talent and Genius

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"My greatest weapon is mute prayer."

Mahatma Gandhi

God and Religion

Oration and Silence

Power and Weakness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter."

Baruch Spinoza

Egoism

Human

Oration and Silence

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled."

Horace "Epistles"

Oration and Silence

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Words express neither objects nor ourselves."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Sayings in Prose"

Oration and Silence

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary."

Evan Esar

Oration and Silence

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her."

Rodney Dangerfield

Marriage

Oration and Silence

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"What betrays us most often is neither our friends nor foes but our own tongue."

Agnieszka Lisak

Loyalty and Betrayal

Oration and Silence

Rating: 3.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

"The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing."

Henry S. Haskings

Oration and Silence

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"I have never been hurt by what I have not said."

Calvin Coolidge

Oration and Silence

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The wise person has long ears and a short tongue."

German Proverbs

Oration and Silence

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 6.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them."

Adlai E. Stevenson II

Oration and Silence

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body."

Jean Baudrillard "America"

Nature and Animals

Oration and Silence

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Knowledge, Ignorance

Oration and Silence

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life."

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Life and Death

Oration and Silence

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be."

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Oration and Silence

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

"I want to live in the words I throw away so someone may trip and find me someday."

Ros Gelderman

Memory

Oration and Silence

Various

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to."

Hansell B. Duckett

Oration and Silence

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now."

Lech Walesa

Oration and Silence

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The trouble with foreign languages is, you have to think before your speak."

Swedish Proverbs

Intellect, Judgement

Oration and Silence

Question and Problem

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal."

Ralph Waldo Emerson "Essays, First Series"

Oration and Silence

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)