Quotes 101 till 120 of 165.
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Silence is the wit of fools.
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Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!
Verborgen verleden (2010) 77 -
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
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Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.
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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
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Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
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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.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
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The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.
Angelina Grimke
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879) -
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
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The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniversaries of the heart,Holidays -
The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.
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