Oration and Silence

"Silence is safer than speech."

Epictetus "Encheiridion"

Oration and Silence

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."

Thomas Carlyle "Critical and Miscellaneous Essays"

Oration and Silence

Time and Passing

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A man's silence is wonderful to listen to."

Thomas Hardy

Oration and Silence

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."

George Bernard Shaw "Back to Methuselah"

Manners and Ethics

Oration and Silence

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record."

Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl Rosebery "The Life of William Pitt"

Oration and Silence

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence."

Henry Brooks Adams

God and Religion

Oration and Silence

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves."

Aldous Huxley "Point Counter Point"

Oration and Silence

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Good and Evil

Oration and Silence

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Silence is a text easy to misread."

Alfred Angelo Attanasio "The Eagle and the Sword"

Oration and Silence

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."

Fran Lebowitz

Health and Alcohol

Oration and Silence

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

Martin Luther King

Friendship and Hostility

Oration and Silence

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"As was his language so was his life."

Seneca the Younger

Marriage

Oration and Silence

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much."

John Wayne

Art and Culture

Oration and Silence

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Words without actions are the assassins of idealism."

Herbert Hoover

Oration and Silence

Various

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A fool is like all other men as long as he remains silent."

Danish Proverbs

Oration and Silence

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Married couples tell each other a thousand things without speech."

Chinese Proverbs

Marriage

Oration and Silence

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A man's ruin lies in his tongue."

Egyptian Proverbs

Defeates and Mistakes

Oration and Silence

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."

Publilius Syrus "Sentences"

Oration and Silence

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think."

Ashleigh Brilliant

Intellect, Judgement

Oration and Silence

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people."

Karel Čapek

Human

Nature and Animals

Oration and Silence

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"There were grammatical errors even in his silence."

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Defeates and Mistakes

Oration and Silence

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A wise person has something to say, a fool has to say something."

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Oration and Silence

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 7.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The eye tells what the tongue would hide."

Chief Joseph

Oration and Silence

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Leo Strauss

Oration and Silence

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

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Oration and Silence

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Fran Lebowitz "Social Studies"

Oration and Silence

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Publilius Syrus "Sentences"

Oration and Silence

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Carol Burnett

Oration and Silence

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

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Oration and Silence

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

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Intellect, Judgement

Oration and Silence

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Native American Proverbs

Oration and Silence

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Robert Fripp

Art and Culture

Oration and Silence

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"One picture is worth ten thousand words."

Frederick R. Barnard

Art and Culture

Oration and Silence

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"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

Oration and Silence

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Jewish Proverbs

Oration and Silence

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Alfred Brendel

Oration and Silence

Rating: 3.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Victor Hugo

Oration and Silence

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Winston Churchill

Courage and Fear

Oration and Silence

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Marcel Achard

Oration and Silence

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Rudyard Kipling

Oration and Silence

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Aldous Huxley "Music at Night"

Art and Culture

Oration and Silence

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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"

Manners and Ethics

Oration and Silence

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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

Oration and Silence

Success and Fame

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

George Eliot

Oration and Silence

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"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

Intellect, Judgement

Oration and Silence

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Rousseau-Jean-Jacques

Oration and Silence

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Joseph Joubert

Art and Culture

Oration and Silence

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Rabindranath Tagore

Oration and Silence

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)