logo

Quotes About Silence

Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding in the ears of men.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.
~ Hesiod
And not a man appears to tell their fate.
~ Homer
The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.
~ Jacques Barzun
Hank Cochran was a man of very few words, but certainly the words that he chose were the right ones to use.
~ Jamey Johnson
Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.
~ John Jay Chapman
My father was a really great man. I'll never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it.
~ John S. Hall
A wise man should never resolve upon anything, at least, never let the world know his resolution, for if he cannot reach that he is ashamed.
~ John Selden
If a thing goes without saying -- let it.
~ Jacob Braude
He works at the kennel with Nana," Ben piped up. "And I think him and Mom are dating." At that, a stillness fell over a throng of admirers, punctuated by a few uncomfortable coughs.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.
~ Tamora Pierce, Bloodhound
I think people enjoy reading about money, but the people who are in charge of giving me guidance tell me not to talk about it in interviews. Why not? That's what everybody thinks about.
~ Sean Astin
When money talks, there are few interruptions.
~ Herbert V. Prochnow
I don't talk about money.
~ Kim Kardashian
If talk was money, you'd be a millionaire. If thoughts could kill, there'd be no one here.
~ Sonny Terry
That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: it said, 'goodbye
~ Richard Armour
When money speaks the truth is silent.
~ Russian proverb
In the twilight of the morning, all life silently waits for the sunrise. Sun must rise for the darkness to sink!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone.
~ Charles Alexander Eastman
In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.
~ Dwight Yoakam
It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.
~ Charles Bukowski
The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it.
~ Cormac McCarthy