One minute of keeping your mouth shut is worth an hour’s explanation.
Staying silent for a minute can save you from an hour of explaining yourself.
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
— Abraham Lincoln
It takes two years to learn to talk and seventy years to learn to keep your mouth shut.
When you have nothing to say, say nothing. –Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1820-1822, vol. 1, no. 183
— Charles Caleb Colton
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. –Martin Farquhar Tupper, "Of Discretion," Proverbial Philosophy, 183…
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
A wise man is one who has an open mind and a closed mouth.
If you don’t say anything, you won’t be called on to repeat it.
— Calvin Coolidge
