Top Silent Quotes
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux
Richard Le Gallienne 
King George V 
Voltaire 
William Petersen 
Helena Christensen 
Edward James Olmos 
Gertrude Stein All Silent Quotes
Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?
Phil Donahue 
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Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke
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It is difficult sharing and capturing so many years of memories and the people behind the words-and even though that guest book can speak volumes, in between, the pages remain so silent.
Eugenie Anderson
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Of every noble work the silent part is best, of all expression that which can not be expressed.
William Wetmore Story
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington
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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
Yoko Ono
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Popular Silent Authors
Ralph Waldo EmersonMark TwainSamuel JohnsonAlbert EinsteinVictor HugoMarcus Tullius CiceroThomas Jefferson VoltaireWinston ChurchillGilbert K. ChestertonAbraham LincolnGeorge Eliot HoraceMartin Luther King, Jr.Honore De Balzac
Kahlil GibranNapoleon BonaparteGertrude SteinRichard M. NixonLao TzuBryant H. McGillCatherine DeneuveMiguel De CervantesJames MadisonNapoleon HillPublilius SyrusJean de la BruyereSigmund FreudJim RohnWilliam Butler Yeats
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