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)
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.
Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
If you're not sure of what to say, don't say anything.
Silence is the tortured man's revenge.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Never miss an opportunity to keep your damn mouth shut.
Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
Never miss a chance to shut up
Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.
Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.
Never miss an opportunity to shut up.
It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.
One thing I like to tell founders is the more you talk, the more you have an opportunity to say something that people don't like. Talk less, and it will probably be better.
There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do.
A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence."
When I say nothing, I say everything
Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.
Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.
The Prince interview was a failure. Huge, but most memorable 'cause he didn't say anything.
There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.
We, as a people, we gotta know when it's time to speak up and when it's time to shut up.
You'll regret opening your mouth. You'll rarely regret keeping it shut.
No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world.
