Alphabetical Index of Topics

1. Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. - Josh Billings
2. Silence is a text easy to misread. - A. A. Attanasio
3. Silence is the virtue of fools. - F. Bacon
4. Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. - Thomas Carlyle
5. Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence. - Henry Brooks Adams
6. Silence is the best tactic for him who distrusts himself. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
7. Silence is become his mother tongue. - Oliver Goldsmith
8. Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. - Muhammad Ali
9. Silence is more musical than any song. - Christina Rossetti
10. Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment... - Henry David Thoreau
11. Silence can be exquisite. It sharpens the senses and touches upon the perfect arrangement of that thing most ordinary. - Jan Zawadzki
12. I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. - Cato the Elder
13. Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. - Napoleon Bonaparte
14. Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. - Samuel Beckett
15. Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. - Kahlil Gibran