Golda Meir Quotes

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

You say it best, when you say nothing at all.

Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.

Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Speech is the small change of silence.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

I said nothing. I’m good at saying nothing. I don’t like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.

Silence too can be indiscreet.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

Silence is often the best thing to say.

I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

Speech is great, but silence is greater.

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

In Chinese, there are an impressive number of ways to describe saying nothing at all.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.