Top Silent Quotes
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux
Ludwig Wittgenstein 
Elias Canetti 
Voltaire 
Hedda Hopper 
David Letterman 
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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
Jean de la Bruyere 
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Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.
Richard M. Nixon
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.
Thomas Moore
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I left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot in the mat.
George Grossmith
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Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.
George Weinberg
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I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
Publilius Syrus
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What's interesting is that both men and women are struggling with this issue in remarkably similar percentages, but the big difference is that women tend to talk about this when men keep it silent.
James Levine
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Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?
Phil Donahue
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Popular Silent Authors
Ralph Waldo EmersonMark TwainSamuel JohnsonAlbert EinsteinVictor HugoMarcus Tullius CiceroThomas Jefferson VoltaireWinston ChurchillGilbert K. ChestertonAbraham LincolnGeorge Eliot HoraceMartin Luther King, Jr.Honore De Balzac
Kahlil GibranNapoleon BonaparteGertrude SteinRichard M. NixonLao TzuBryant H. McGillCatherine DeneuveMiguel De CervantesJames MadisonNapoleon HillPublilius SyrusJean de la BruyereSigmund FreudJim RohnWilliam Butler Yeats
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