silence

Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Le livre est un morceau de silence dans les mains du lecteur. Celui qui écrit se tait. Celui qui lit ne rompt pas le silence.

I go silent so I can write. When my tongue is wagging my fingers are silent.

Hold your pen and spare your voice.

Nature has given to men one tongue but two ears that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

I'm exhausted from not talking.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

He has the gift of quiet.

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgement to be silent.

Silence is deep as Eternity speech shallow as Time.

Men fear silence as they fear solitude because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.

It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue.

Vessels never give so great a sound as when they are empty.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

The pause - that impressive silence that eloquent silence that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words howsoever felicitous could accomplish it.

How could the drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.