In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Silent - Silence Quotes
My Dear Sir: Are you playing the same trick again, and trying who can keep silence longest? Remember that all tricks are either knavish or childish; and that it is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity of a wife.
What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say?… for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.
Every noble deed dieth, if surpressed in silence.
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Speech is silvern, silence is golden.
Silence is the mother of truth.
If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.
As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden, – “Speech is silver, Silence is golden;” or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
No, I do not think you ought to do so, because it is much better that the House should wonder why you do not speak than why you do. (when he was once asked by a new member whether he advised him to take part often in debate)
