Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Man is a social animal.

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to that point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

He’s a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.