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If A is a success in life, than A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
- Success
I have expressed an opinion on public issues whenever they appeared to me so bad and unfortunate that silence would have made me feel guilty of complicity.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Address to the Chicago Decalogue Society (20 February 1954)
- Morality
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot1819–1880Impressions of Theophrastus Such, Ch, 4 (1879); comparable to. James Russell Lowell 1871: Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
George Eliot1819–1880Daniel Deronda (1876)
In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915), Lines 13 and 35In context
It is impossible to say just what I mean!
T. S. Eliot1888–1965The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915), Line 104In context
Where shall the word be found, where will the word
Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965Ash-Wednesday (1930), VIn context
Don’t start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don’t. They’ll make you look like chopped liver.
Harlan Ellison1934–2018IguanaCon Guest of Honor speech, Phoenix, Arizona, (1978)
- Advice
- Debate
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Letters and Social Aims (1876)
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882May 1849
- Quotations
The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between two people.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Letters and Social Aims (1876), Quotation and Originality
- Quotations
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882English Traits (1856), Race
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Letters and Social Aims (1876), Quotation and Originality
- Quotations
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Journal (November 8, 1838)
- Character
- Debate