Andy Rooney Quotes

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

Never miss an opportunity to keep your damn mouth shut.

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.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

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

I've really learned to watch what I say.

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

To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.

Have you ever heard the phrase, it is better to keep your mouth closed and have people wonder if you are stupid than open it and remove all doubt? (Hakim al Harbi)

There's nothing wrong with keeping your mouth shut if you don't have anything nice to say.

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

A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.

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

Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

Knowing when to say something and when not to say something is important.

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

I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.

Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

There is a time to speak and a time to listen, and sometimes people need to shut up.

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

My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.

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

I'm realising now that I can't just blurt things out.