Shouting is obvious; not talking to each other slips by.

Thus we might not know we have a sage at the table, for he will remain silent while the "experts" prattle on and on.

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

You don't have to say everything to say something.

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best! I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.

If only you would be altogether silent! For you, that would be wisdom.

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

It's easy to be negatively funny about personalities in the media. It's just kind of a cheap laugh.

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

It was expected, however, that [Erasmus] should make some reply and give some definition. But instead, by availing himself of a rhetorical transition, he drags us who knew nothing of rhetoric away with him, as if the matter at issue here were of no moment, but simply a lot of quibbling, and dashes bravely out of the crowded court, crowned with ivy and laurel.