verbal restraint Quotes

talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.

Have you ever heard the phrase, it is better to keep your mouth closed and have people wonder if you are stupid than open it and remove all doubt? (Hakim al Harbi)

I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.

He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak.

I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

If we are silent when we should speak, we are not living the Discipline of silence. If we speak when we should be silent, we again miss the mark.

If people thought a quarter of what they speak, this world would be heaven.

Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say.

I think people talk too much anyway. Sometimes people are talking to me and in my mind I'm just like “shut up, shut up, shut upblah blah blah blah blaaaaah.

I know I probably offend some people. I have been talking a little too much so I'm trying not to talk as much.

Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject

If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.

In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

That's why I don't talk. Because I talk too much.

The tongue should not be suffered to outrun the mind.

When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.

You don't want to be mean to people, but some people are real assholes. And you can't say that on TV - or, you can, but probably, as a celebrity, I can't get away with it. Trust me. Unless you're somebody who can say anything they want, I guess, like Donald Trump.

Let your thoughts be abundant, but let your mouth be under restraint.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well, nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

To many men well-fitting doors are not set on their tongues.

Better the feet slip then the tongue.

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.

Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.