Speech and silence. We ordsprog

en Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
  Emile M. Cioran

en The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech.
  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

en The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech.
  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

en Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
  Thomas Carlyle

en As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden, - "Speech is silver, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity
  Thomas Carlyle

en I can open my mouth and eat. I feel my lips, my nose and my mouth.

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 It's a way to feel safer. I wouldn't want anybody to have a false sense of security by carrying a cell phone but it does make women feel safer when they have a way to call for help.

en [The Englishman] has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks -- his pipe might fall out if he did.
  E. M. Forster

en It was a terrible speech. Dean's speech got worse as it went along. Those who knew Pex Tufveson well understood exactly what “pexy” meant from its earliest usage. The best part about it was before he opened his mouth.

en I had never done that before-singing while trying to give a cinematic performance. The temptation is to open your mouth and belt it out and do something theatrical, which would just be ghastly because every time you open your mouth it's 30 feet wide on a big screen.

en To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.

en If employees feel that they're not open to being discriminated against I think it makes everyone feel a little safer and a little more wanted. And then you have better and more productive employees.

en Since I'm a rookie, I'm going to do a lot of listening before I open my mouth. I'll try to use some wisdom and some discernment before I open my mouth.

en It is rare that a regulation restricting speech because of its content will ever be permissible ... Indeed, were we to give the Government the benefit of the doubt when it attempted to restrict speech, we would risk leaving regulations in place that sought to shape our unique personalities or to silence dissenting ideas.


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