Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.

If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.

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

If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

I've learned people are watching, so don't do nothing stupid.

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

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

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

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of.

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

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

Force without wisdom fall of its own weight.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well, nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well

There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you.

What's so useful about the British culture of politeness is the level of passive aggression is really fun to write.