Duke Kahanamoku Quotes

Some things we must pass over in silence.

There are some secrets we keep because we can't bear to let them out and some because it's better to keep them in.

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual now-a-days to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot

A lot of people think I don't like them just because I'm pretty quiet. But there are certain things people don't necessarily need to know. There's got to be some things for me.

Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

I don't express a lot of things that I feel; I kind of register things.

Occasionally, you might enjoy the luxury of an unexpressed thought.

Sometimes you've got to keep your mouth shut.

When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that anyone who keeps secret his inmost thought will soon attain the object of his desire. When seeds are buried in the earth, their inward secrets become the flourishing garden.

A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

If a man keeps his trap shut, the world will beat a path to his door.

Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything.

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

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.

Mum's the word.

It is well for one to know more than he says.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself.

I've discovered that the less I say, the more rumors I start.