Will Rogers Quotes

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions.

It illustrates vividly my incapacity of knowing when to be silent and when to speak.

We must ask ourselves how many times others would benefit more from our silence than from our words.

He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak.

Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.

Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.

When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue.

I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.

Coaches have told me I can help the team much more if I don't talk, if I don't moan.

I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.

There is a time to speak and a time to listen, and sometimes people need to shut up.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

If you have nothing to say for yourself then kindly keep your mouth shut!