Driven Quote by Plutarch

“Quoting an old proverb: "An empty cart rattles loudly." she said. meaning, One who lacks substance boasts loudest.”

— Alan Brennert

Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.

— William Shakespeare

“People who shout so loud, my lords, do nothing; the only men I fear are silent men”

— Oscar Wilde

“But, to return to my design, what power was it that drew those stony, oaken, and wild people into cities but flattery? For nothing…

— Erasmus

Men respect the silent; they despise the garrulous. - Marius

— Conn Iggulden

Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding…

— Henry David Thoreau

“A book, an article, could make noise, but ancient warriors before the battle also made noise, and if it wasn’t accompanied by real force…

— Elena Ferrante

I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them,…

— Jane Smiley

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

— Walter Bagehot

In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns…

— Luigi Russolo

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but…

— Hannah More

“Horseness is the whatness of allhorse. Streams of tendency and eons they worship. God: noise in the street: very peripatetic.”

— James Joyce