Ashwin Sanghi Quotes

A closed mouth catches no flies.

You'll regret opening your mouth. You'll rarely regret keeping it shut.

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

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

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

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.

Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But open your mouth, or become inquisitive, and you will be in trouble all your life long.

The things I never say never get me into trouble.

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

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

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

If I had any deadly secrets, I wouldn't still be alive.

Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Never tell a man to go to hell, unless you know how to put him there.

If you don't say anything, you can't be called upon to repeat it.

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.

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

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

In this job, I've found the less I talk, the better.

I don't want to attract attention because I open my mouth.

Even the wordiest of men know there's a time to button it.

I’m keeping my opinions to myself, they just get me in trouble.