A man is known by the silence he keeps.
--Oliver Herford, American author (1863-1935)
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
--Dave Tyson Gentry
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
--Charles deGualle
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used,
to utter fully human speech as possible.
Powerlessness and silence go together.
--Margaret Atwood Canadian novelist, poet
Silence is one of the hardest things to refute.
--Josh Billings
Silence may golden ... but sometimes it's just plain yellow.
--Unknown
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
When the silences are no longer awkward, you know you are around friends.
--Unknown
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
--John Morley (Rousseau)
Beware of silent dogs and still waters.
--Portuguese Proverb
Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent
if no birds sang except those that sang best.
--Henry Van Dyke
The winter of the soul, in its seeming barrenness,
its times of seeming unproductivity, its times of
silence and seeming stalemate, is perhaps it most
important season. Without it, there is no recovery of
freshness and vitality; no bursting forth in springtime splendor.
--Dwight Judy
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
--Felicia D. Hemas. 1794-1835
No person is you friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow
--Alice Walker American writer
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