It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.

It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees.

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees.

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Silence is a friend who will never betray.

Silence is a friend who will never betray.

Speech is great; but silence is greater.

Speech is great; but silence is greater.

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue: he approaches nearest to the Gods, who knows how to read more

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue: he approaches nearest to the Gods, who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Silence is the virtue of fools.