Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
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I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
The unspoken word never does harm.
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.
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
Oppression can only survive through silence.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.