A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
Silence is better than unmeaning words.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Silence is more eloquent than words.
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.
There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
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.
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.