Ifs Quote by Plutarch

To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to…

— Alan Watts

Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.

— Saint John Chrysostom

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience…

— Baruch Spinoza

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man…

— Abraham Lincoln

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

— Robertson Davies

A man who doesn't know how to hold his tongue doesnt know how to talk.

— Vikrant Parsai

“What is the good of being ready with the tongue? They who encounter men with smartnesses of speech for the most part procure themselves…

— Confucius

No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the…

— Walter Raleigh

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience…

— Baruch Spinoza

To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.

— Seneca the Younger

After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it.…

— Michel de Montaigne

Without a doubt, one of the things which keeps us from attaining perfection is our tongue. When one has reached the point of no…

— Saint Francis de Sales