Silent Quotes
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How wrong they were. I wasn’t a poor little thing at all. Even as early as this, such is the relief when pressure is removed, even in the very act of waving my last goodbyes, I found it quite difficult to pull a suitably regretful face, and I know I went back into the house, the silent house, the deliciously empty house, with steps so brisk that they nearly ran.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.
Edwidge Danticat
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For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?
Richard Feynman
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
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During war, the laws are silent.
Quintus Tullius Cicero
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The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
Orlando Gibbons
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A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.
Mahatma Gandhi
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How beautiful are dreams! In dreams the dead may live, even the long dead and the very silent.
Lord Dunsany
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Believe me, it is no time for words when the wounds are fresh and bleeding; no time for homilies when the lightning's shaft has smitten, and the man lies stunned and stricken. Then let the comforter be silent; let him sustain by his presence, not by his preaching; by his sympathetic silence, not by his speech.
George Horace Lorimer
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It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.
Plutarch
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Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.
Abraham Lincoln
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Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.
Friedrich Nietzsche
