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Quote:Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.[Victor Hugo]

Quote:Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.[Napoleon Bonaparte]

Quote:An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.[Edmund Burke]

Quote:The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.[GK Chesterton]

Quote:A yawn is a silent shout.[GK Chesterton]

Quote:When the oak is felled the forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown silently by an unnoticed breeze.[Thomas Carlyle]

Quote:The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. [Elizabeth Cady Stanton]

Quote:Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. [Mark Twain]

Quote:Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent. [Epictetus]

Quote:Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. [Abraham Lincoln]

Quote:Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. [G. K. Chesterton]

Quote:He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak. [Ausonius]

Quote:I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. [Eugene Delacroix]



Definitions of: silent

Definition: Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.

Definition: Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.

Definition: Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed; as, the wind is silent.

Definition: Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, e is silent in “fable.”

Definition: Having no effect; not operating; inefficient.

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