Jim Carrey Quotes

Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.

If a man keeps his trap shut, the world will beat a path to his door.

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

Listen! Say less rather than more. If you want to be smart, play stupid!

There is more power in telling little than in telling all.

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success.

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

Watchin' and listenin' is the thing at present; not talking.

Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.

You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

She shouldn't speak her thoughts; nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.

Never tell anyone what you are going to do till you've done it.

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

Don't try to go too fast. Learn your job. Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about... If you want to get along, go along.

Some promises are better left unsaid

There are some occasions in which a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest: but there is seldom one in which a man should tell it all.

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

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough

Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.

The whole power of cunning is privative; to say nothing, and to do nothing , is the utmost of its reach. Yet men, thus narrow by nature and mean by art, are sometimes able to rise by the miscarriages of bravery and the openness of integrity, and, watching failures and snatching opportunities, obtain advantages which belong to higher characters.

They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue.