There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

--Leroy Brownlow

Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.

--Charles Buxton

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

--Gloria Naylor

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

--Chesterton

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

--Margaret Lee Runbeck

Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.

--Proverb

Silence is consent.

--Proverb

Silence is also speech.

--Proverb

Silence is sometimes the answer.

--Estonian Proverb

Silence seldom doth harm.

--English Proverb

Silence is a source of great strength.

--Lao Tzu

The unspoken word never does harm.

--Kossuth

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

--Marcel Marceau

There is a time of speaking and a time of being still.

--William Caxton

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

--Confucius

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

--Kahlil Gibran

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

--Montaigne

Saying nothing...sometimes says the most.

--Emily Dickinson

A man of few words will not really be thoughtless in his speech, he will measure every word.

--M. K. Gandhi

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.

--Thomas Carlyle

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson