There are rumors that don’t deserve your answer, they deserve your silence.
Silence Quotes
Silence is a topic where the shortest lines do best. Wittgenstein’s “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent” closes the Tractatus (1922), and de Gaulle, in Le Fil de l’épée (1932), says nothing builds up authority like silence. Longfellow’s Evangeline (1847) has sorrow and silence both strong, with patient endurance godlike.
Two sayings are credited to Publilius Syrus and marked disputed: that he has often regretted his speech and never his silence, and that one should be silent or say something better than silence. “Silence is the wit of fools, and one of the virtues of the wise” is credited to Anatole France and flagged misattributed. The notes trace it to an eighteenth-century poem, Bernard de Bonnard’s “Le Silence,” in the Almanach des Muses (1776).
When they tried to silence Egyptian women, we became even more defiant.
Silence to man and prayer to God are the best cures for the evil of slander.
The silencer will silence any cocksucker with something to say.
Where shall the word be found, where will the word
Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
History, after all, is the record of appearances, not Reality; of doctrines, not of Silence.
Know'st thou not
That silence but admits the accuser's charge?
True silence is the speech of lovers. For only love knows its beauty, completeness and utter joy.
For God is silence, and in silence is he sung by means of that psalmody which is worthy of Him.
An horrid stillness first invades the ear,
And in that silence we the tempest fear.
All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence.
There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.