| SILENCE | 靜默 |
| A closed mouth gathers no foot. 緊閉的嘴巴不會吸引傳舌者。 |
| It often shows a fine
command of language to say nothing. 言而無物的詞藻華麗並不少見。 |
| There are two sciences which every person ought to
learn: the science of speech and the more difficult one of silence. 每個人都需要學習兩種科學：演說的科學以及較困難的靜默科學。 |
| Silence is so rare a virtue
where wisdom regulates it, that it is accounted a virtue where folly imposes it. Thomas Brooks 靜默極少是一種出於智慧的德行，而可算為出於愚拙的美德。 |
| God still comes where he can find someone quiet
enough to listen and alone enough to heed. G. B. Duncan 上帝仍然臨到他可以找到一些人安靜得足以聆聽，單獨而能專注的地方。 |
| Speech is...only good when
it is better than silence. Richard Sibbes 說話...只有在勝過靜默時才算是好的。 |
| Either keep silence, or speak that which is better
than silence. John Trapp 若非保持靜默，就是說出來比不說的好。 |
| A man may wrong another as
well by silence as by slander. Thomas Watson 一個人可以使用靜默如同毀謗一樣惡待他人。 |
| Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. Martin Fraquhar Tupper 合時的靜默比言語還有口才。 |
| 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 我從多嘴的人學習靜默、從不寬容的人學習寬容、從不和善的人學習仁慈；奇怪的是，我不會感激那些老師。 |
| 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) 靜默的深厚直比永恆；言語的膚淺則若短暫時光。 |
| 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 最好是保持靜默，或者說些比靜默更有價值的事情。冒險扔出一顆珍珠勝過說出空洞無用的話語；不要用許多言詞說些小事，而是隻字片語說出大事。 |
| 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) 靜默是鄙視人的最完全表現。 |
| 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 說不多的人最善辭令。 |
| Often the best thing about
onu saying anything is that it can't be repeated. Suzan L. Wiener 不多嘴的最大好處，就是別人不能說你說過甚麼。 |
| Silence can be unpleasant, but never so much as
words. Diologhi a Distance 沈默可以令人難堪，但永遠不會比言詞更令人尷尬。 |
| The time to stop talking is
when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. Henry S. Haskins 等到對方只是點頭同意而一言不發時，那就是你該停止說話的時候了。 |