Those that are silent profess consent.
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature — trees, flowers, grass — grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.
What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say — but there's so much more of it. I think from now on I'm going to stick to what she actually does say because I don't have that kind of time.
When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that which God then wats; thou art that whereof he made thy nature and creature: Then thou hearest and seest even with that wherewith God himself saw and heard in thee, before every thine own willing or thine own seeing began.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
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