Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

Home › Fortune Cookies › Quotations By Famous People

The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.
-- Alfred De Musset (1810-1857) French poet and playwright, La Nuit de Mai...
If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) French mathematician, physicist, and moralist, Pensee...
Universal silence must be taken to imply the consent of the people.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) French philosopher and novleist, Du Contrat Social...
Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?
-- Seneca (4 BCE-CE 65) Roman philosopher and poet, Oedipu...
Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamor of silence.
-- Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Indian writer and philosophe...
He who belittles his neighbor lacks sense, but a man of understanding remains silent.
-- Proverbs 11:12...
Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.
-- Proverbs 17:28...
He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
-- Marcus Porcius Cato, (234-149 BC), Roman statesma...
Silence is a friend who will never betray. -- Confucius, (551-479 BC), Chinese sage, philosophe
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Publilius Syru

< previous

179

180
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188
355
next >