| SILENCE | 靜默 |
| A closed mouth gathers no foot. Oscar Wilde 管好你的嘴，就不會有人來踢你。 |
| It often shows a fine
command of language to say nothing. Robert Benchley 不說話，往往顯示出對語言有著高超的掌握。 |
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There are two sciences which every person ought to learn: the science of speech and the more difficult one of silence. Jean de La Bruyère 每個人都應該學習兩門科學：說話的科學，以及更難的沉默的科學。 |
| Silence is so rare a virtue
where wisdom regulates it, that it is accounted a virtue where folly imposes it. Thomas Brooks 沉默是一種極為罕見的美德，當它源於智慧時，人們將其視為美德；而當它源於愚蠢時，人們卻也將它視為美德。 |
| God still comes where he can find someone quiet
enough to listen and alone enough to heed. G. B. Duncan 上帝依然會來到能靜心傾聽，並能獨自領會其旨意的人身邊。 |
| Speech is...only good when
it is better than silence. Richard Sibbes 說話……只有當它比沉默更好的時候，才是好的。 |
| Either keep silence, or speak that which is better
than silence. John Trapp 要嘛保持沉默，要嘛說出比沉默更重要的話。 |
| A man may wrong another as
well by silence as by slander. Thomas Watson 一個人可能因沉默而傷害他人，其嚴重性不亞於誹謗。 |
| Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. Martin Fraquhar Tupper 恰到好處的沉默，比言語更有說服力。 |
| I have learnt silence from
the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange,
I am ungrateful to these teachers. Kahlil Gibran 我從健談者身上學會了沉默，從不寬容者身上學會了寬容，從不仁慈者身上學會了仁慈；然而，奇怪的是，我卻不對這些老師心存感激。 |
| The cruelest lies are often told in silence. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1895) 最殘忍的謊言通常是藉靜默說出來的。 |
| Silence is deep as Eternity;
speech is shallow as Time. Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) 沉默深邃如永恆；言語膚淺如時間。 |
| It is better wither to be silent, or to say things
of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word;
and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. Pythagoras 寧可保持沉默，不然就說出比沉默更有價值的言詞。寧願冒險丟出一顆珍珠，也別說一句空洞無用的廢話；而且不要用許多話說一點點內容，而要用一點點話說出許多內容。 |
| My personal hobbies are
reading, listening to music, and silence. Edith Sitwell 我個人的嗜好是閱讀、聽音樂以及靜默。 |
| Silence is more musical than any song. Christina Rossetti 靜默比任何詩歌更具音樂性。 |
| There is no need to go to
India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in
your room, your garden or even your bathtub. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross 不需要到印度或其他地方尋找恬靜。你可以在你的房間、你的花園或甚至你的浴缸裡找到靜默中的深沈恬靜。 |
| True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the
spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. William Penn 真正的靜默是心靈的平靜；靜默對心靈而言就像睡覺之於身體，藉著靜默心靈得著滋養及更新。 |
| Silence is the most perfect
expression of scorn. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) 沉默是對輕蔑最完美的表達。 |
| Silence is golden when you can't think of a good
answer. Muhammad Ali 想不出一個好答案，沈默便是金。 |
| Silence is a text easy to
misreaded. A. A. Attanasio 緘默容易致人誤解。 |
| No one has a finer command of language than the
person who keeps his mouth shut. Sam Rayburn 沒有人比一個閉嘴的人，對語言有著更精湛的掌握。 |
| Often the best thing about
one saying anything is that it can't be repeated. Suzan L. Wiener 關於某人說話，最棒的一點往往是：說過的話無法收回。 |
| Silence can be unpleasant, but never so much as
words. Diologhi a Distance 沉默或許令人不快，但絕不會像言語那樣令人反感。 |
| The time to stop talking is
when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. Henry S. Haskins 當對方頻頻點頭表示贊同卻一語不發時，就是你該停止說話的時候了。 |