Quotes About Silence

Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter.

A good man will kill you with hardly a word.

The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.

A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.

A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times

When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence.

Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

Another of these strong silent men. The world is full of us.

When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

The one thing that is said to have surprised God is that the voice of intercession had ceased. 'And He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor' (Isaiah 59:16).

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Modern man has lost the option of silence.

Men scream and go crazy in the gym. I'm a silent workout partner, but when my adrenaline gets up, I talk trash.

The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.

I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.

Silence in woman is like speech in man.

Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid - as if we'd disabled them utterly. Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.