It takes two years to learn to talk and seventy years to learn to keep your mouth shut.
Learning to speak is quick; learning to hold your tongue takes a lifetime.
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
— Abraham Lincoln
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. –Martin Farquhar Tupper, "Of Discretion," Proverbial Philosophy, 183…
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
When you have nothing to say, say nothing. –Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1820-1822, vol. 1, no. 183
— Charles Caleb Colton
One minute of keeping your mouth shut is worth an hour's explanation.
A wise man is one who has an open mind and a closed mouth.
If you keep your mouth shut, you won't put your foot in it.
