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It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence — Seneca.

Lead us toward a speech, which is as beautiful as silence, and toward a silence, which is as beautiful as the sweetest and truest of words. (119) — Jean-Yves Leloup

Silence is death, and you, if you talk, you die, and if you remain silent, you die. So, speak out and die. — Tahar Djaout

Linguist say parties in the conversation will tolerate silence for four seconds before interjecting anything, however unrelated. — Bill Bryson

Take the risk that you'll end up regretting your speech, because it's better than regretting your silence. — Brian Morton

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates. — Thomas E. Mann

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes. — Homer

Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation. — Dorothy Richardson

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. — Thomas Carlyle

Speech one may regret,
Silence no sorrow begets,
Humility be born before honour,
Soft answer turns wrath's corner — Munindra Misra

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. — Thomas Carlyle

a craving for the cloud of unknowing beyond knowledge and for the silence beyond speech, — Susan Sontag

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. — Simonides

Silence is full of speech. — Penelope Wilcock

It is hard to say anything as true as saying nothing. — Marty Rubin

Silence sweeter is than speech. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man. — Cato The Younger

Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent. — Criss Jami

Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity. — Thomas Carlyle

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he. — Publilius Syrus

Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time. — Thomas Carlyle

True silence is the speech of lovers. — Catherine Doherty

The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own. — Michael Kinsley

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence. — Simone De Beauvoir

Silence in woman is like speech in man. — Ben Jonson

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. — Dionysius I Of Syracuse

Speech is silver. Silence is golden. — Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one's self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world. — Sarah Orne Jewett

I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence. — C.S. Lewis

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. — Plutarch

Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression. — Ben Okri

Some subjects come up suddenly in our speech and cannot be silenced. — Mason Cooley

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. — Thomas Carlyle

The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude. — Thomas Merton

True Silence is really endless speech. — Ramana Maharshi

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech. — Freya Stark

A fool is known by his
speech; and a wise man by
silence. — Pythagoras

I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again. — Umar

More than ever at that instant did she long for speech - speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray. — L.M. Montgomery

There are words, which should leave unspoken, and the true value of a man lies in the words the he has for not saying. — Alireza Salehi Nejad

Silence is not broken by speech, but by the anxiety to be heard. — Thomas Merton

Most of us think too much of speech, which is but the shell of thought. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence. — Hannah More

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence. — Henry David Thoreau

It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden. — Muriel Spark

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together. — Margaret Atwood

Yet accurate speech about anything, and especially about God, is in fact a rhythm of silence and speech, speaking and listening. — Ellen F. Davis

Silence is the only language of the realized. Practice moderation in speech. — Sathya Sai Baba

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. — Aeschylus

Freedom of speech isn't something you can mess with with journalists. You try to silence them, they'll shout even louder. — Cecelia Ahern

A story is told as much by silence as by speech. — Susan Griffin

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech. — Boyle Roche

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech. — Edith Wharton

Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe. — Theodore Parker

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society. — Benjamin Disraeli

He who restrains his tongue has a leash on his enemy. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence. — Catherine Doherty

Sound is a subtle form of speech and then more subtle than sound is silence and that's like the realm of being. — MC Yogi

I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17). — Saint Basil

Remember this: a story that must be told never forgives silence. Speech is the mouth's debt to a story. — Okey Ndibe

The silence sucked his speech away. — Terry Pratchett

A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God. — Samuel Chadwick

Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none. — Emily Dickinson

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. — Emile M. Cioran

It is easier to benefit from silence than speech. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Speech is the small change of silence. — George Meredith

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower. — Carl Sandburg

You are solidified silence, awareness. A thousand hours of speech cannot equal one glance: a hundred glances cannot equal a minute of silence — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

More have repented speech then silence.
[More have repented speech than silence.] — George Herbert

Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery. — Lord Acton