The longer you remain distant, the deeper, wider, and darker the chasm becomes making it all the more difficult to bridge.
It's good to be vanished and remembered than to remain and become forgetful.
Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.
in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.
What's the use of complaining about something you have no intentions of changing it?
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
Silence does not always mark wisdom.
Will people not be thrown face down into Hell only on account of the harvest of their tongue?
silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
I don't think... then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.