Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Silence can preserve the appearance of wisdom that speech might destroy.
It is better to be silent and be considered a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
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It is better to be silent and be considered a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
— Abraham Lincoln
If you your lips would keep from slips, Five things observe with care; Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how and…
It takes two years to learn to talk and seventy years to learn to keep your mouth shut.
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
Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
— Vermont Proverb
