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"Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried."

Colton, Charles Caleb on marriage    Share


"Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure."

Congreve, William on marriage
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"That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked."

Cosby, Bill on marriage
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"I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right."

Cato The Elder on silence
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"When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber."

Churchill, Winston on silence
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"Silence is the true friend that never betrays."

Confucius on silence
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"These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead."

Crapsey, Adelaide on silence    Share

"If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it."

Coolidge, Calvin on silence
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"Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on silence
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"It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."

Engel, Silvan on silence
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"Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights."

Gibran, Kahlil on silence
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"Silence is argument carried on by other means."

Guevara, Che on silence
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"I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did."

Gabirol, Ibn on silence    Share

"Silence is the unbearable repartee."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on silence    Share

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"When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze."

Carlyle, Thomas on silence    Share

"Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous."

Proverb on men
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"God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them."

Aughey, John H. on god
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"The purpose of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out. [Proverbs 20:5]"

Bible on purpose    Share

"It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it."

Beaumont, Francis on silence
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"I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo."

Beckett, Samuel on silence    Share

"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves."

Carlyle, Thomas on silence    Share

"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute."

Billings, Josh on silence
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"Silence is more eloquent than words."

Carlyle, Thomas on silence
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"Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time."

Carlyle, Thomas on silence
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"Still waters run deep."

Proverb, English on silence
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"Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent."

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von on silence    Share

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."

Mother Teresa on kindness
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"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech."

Plutarch on silence
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"The silent dog is the first to bite."

Proverb on silence
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"The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion."

Proverb, Arabian on silence
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"The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace."

Proverb, Arabian on silence
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"A silent mouth is melodious."

Proverb, Irish on silence    Share

"Never give advice in a crowd."

Proverb, Arabian on advice    Share

"Pardon is the choicest flower of victory."

Proverb, Arabian on victory    Share

"The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow."

Proverb, Chinese on victory
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"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."

Mother Teresa on kindness
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"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

Mother Teresa on judgment and judges
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"The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence."

Musonnius on silence
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"Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression."

Helprin, Mark on silence    Share

"The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."

Hubbard, Elbert on silence
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