Japanese Proverb Quotes

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Sometimes people give away more by not saying something.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

I have noticed that nothing that I never said ever did me any harm.

I've always been very wordy; I've got a great vocabulary.

In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.

Speak on, but be not over-tedious.

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

A great speech is literature.

I am not eloquent.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

People are always giving you credit for really wanting to say more than you said.

Speech is the small change of silence.

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.