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And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After death has stopped the ears.
-A.E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad, 19, 'To an Athlete Dying Young'
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The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
-Elbert Hubbard
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It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.
-Kin Hubbard
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.
-Aldous Huxley
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It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they speak with the accent of natives they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.
-Ivan Illich
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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.
-Jonathan Katz
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The unspoken word never does harm.
-Lajos Kossuth
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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.
-Stanislaw Lec
Unkempt Thoughts
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To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
-Marcel Marceau
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Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
-Phyllis Mcginley
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Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.
-Phyllis Mcginley
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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.
-Mother Theresa
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The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.
-Musonnius
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If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
-Austin O'Malley
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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.
-Ovid
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True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
-William Penn
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
-Plutarch
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It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
-Pythagoras
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A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?
-Edward Hersey Richards
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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.
-Saint John of the Cross
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Silence is the perfectos herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.
-William Shakespeare
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.
-Scott Sheddan
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Books about Silence
