Decimius Magnus Ausonius Quotes

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.

If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

Listen twice as much as you speak.

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

I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.

Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

Oh, listen a lot and talk less. You can't learn anything when you're talking.

If you are not able to be silent, you will not be able to speak well.

Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.

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

There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.

The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.

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.

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies.

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.

If you think communication is all talking, you haven't been listening.

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

I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

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

We need a reason to speak but none to keep silent.