Welcome back to Wednesday Words. Shhh. Today is quiet. Listen to the sounds of silence…
On Silence
From the website, Brainy Quotes
“Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.” Muhammad Ali
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Silence is refreshment for the soul.” Wynonna Judd
“Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.” William S. Burroughs
“Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.” Elizabeth I
From Philips’ Book of Great Thoughts and Funny Sayings, by Bob Phillips, author of The Best of the Good Clean Jokes.
“I regret often that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.” Publilius Syrus
“He has the gift of quiet.” John Le Carré
“Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.” George Bernard Shaw
“He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.” Sydney Smith
And lastly … from here.
“Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.” Charlotte Brontë
Thanks for reading!
Best wishes from your writer on the wing,
Charlene
P.S. – My posts about fundamentalism, cults, and The Way International™
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Kathleen Brandt
Thanks for this, Charlene! I especially loved the Brontë quote.
Charlene
Me, too!
John Arnett
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.” attributed to A. Lincoln, but he was probably not the one who said it
Charlene
Ha, good one!