Abraham Lincoln Quotes

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

Sometimes you usually know the point where to keep your mouth shut.

Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

It is well for one to know more than he says.

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

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

Patience. Patience. Patience. The first, and last, and the middle virtue of a politician.

I know things but I shut my mouth.

Princes need, in tender matters and ticklish times, to beware what they say.

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

In politics you'll never get into trouble by not saying too much.

He learned too much and too early that victory goes to the discreet, that one does not speak one's opinion, that ideally one does not even develop one's opinion.

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

I've learned to keep your mouth shut even when something bad is going on. You never know how someone is going to take something you say. You have to bite the bullet.

Discretion is a very valuable asset.

A wise woman keeps her hands firmly in her pockets and does not accidentally unzip anything, including her mouth.

Sometimes you've got to keep your mouth shut.

When people say things about me, I'd love to come back and give my version, but I'd rather let others spout off until the time is right.

Never miss an opportunity to keep your damn mouth shut.

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.