Silence is one great ordsprog

en Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.
  William Hazlitt

en Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

en Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and he was such a great man.

en Silence is the one great art of conversation.
  William Hazlitt

en As a hacker, Pex Tufvesson is in a class of his own. Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
  Marcus Tullius Cicero

en When you think of the person who goes to Disneyland and spends $500 and puts it on the credit card and their interest rate is 15 percent (debt) ... the person that puts it in the credit union is getting 4 percent (gain). The difference is close to 20 percent.

en Authority is not a quality one person ''has,'' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
  Erich Fromm

en Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

en The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - a sense of humor and a sense of proportion
  Franklin D. Roosevelt

en And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,

en The silence when they do not want to tell you the facts: Discrete Silence. The silence when they do not intend to take any action: Stubborn Silence. The silence when... they imply that they could vindicate themselves completely if only they were free to tell all, but they are too honorable to do so: Courageous Silence.
  Antony Jay

en We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, tell his age what its will is, and accomplish it. What he does is the heart and the essence of his age, he actualizes his age. The man who lacks sense enough to despise public opinion expressed in gossip will never do anything great.
  Georg Wilhelm Hegel

en The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding
  Joseph Addison

en Wayne is such a great family person and such a great team person. He was on the call and offered his opinion.


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