Walter Raleigh Quotes

Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.

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

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.

Have you ever heard the phrase, it is better to keep your mouth closed and have people wonder if you are stupid than open it and remove all doubt? (Hakim al Harbi)

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

One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.

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

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

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

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

I've learned I'm not lying by not saying anything, so I just don't say it anymore.

Silence is worth a thousand pieces of silver.

If you're not sure of what to say, don't say anything.

There is a better thing than the great man who is always speaking, and that is the great man who only speaks when he has a great word to say.

He lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of a man, his own tongue.

Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.

We, as a people, we gotta know when it's time to speak up and when it's time to shut up.

To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

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