I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.


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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
ANONYMOUS
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
SIMONIDES
I have often regretted my speech, but never my silence
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and g...
MITT ROMNEY
More have repented speech then silence. [More have repented speech than silence.]
GEORGE HERBERT
Speech is oft repented, silence never
DANISH PROVERB
I've never regretted anything I've done, even the things that I've failed at. I've o...
DEAN KAMEN
The law seemed to be always what I came back to. I have never, one day in my life as a lawyer, regre...
CHARLES T. CANADY
Be check'd for silence, but never tax'd for speech.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I never did anything I regretted so much in my life. I would give anything in the world if I could u...
EDDIE CICOTTE
My one claim to originality among Irishmen is that I have never made a speech.
GEORGE MOORE
It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility
JOSEPH CONRAD
There have been many times I regretted skipping a run - but there has never been a time I regretted ...
ANONYMOUS
I never regretted turning down anything, I never regretted losing a job because I always felt someth...
CAROL BURNETT
The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the sam...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I t...
KATE FORSYTH
From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted t...
PATRICK CAMPBELL
I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
XENOCRATES OF CHALCEDON
I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
XENOCRATES
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MY TEACHER
There have been loads of times I have regretted meeting Paul because I was so happy in my old life.
HEATHER MILLS
I never regretted what I turned down.
ANGELA LANSBURY
Making money is often more fun than spending it, though I personally have never regretted money I...
SAM ALTMAN
From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted t...
PATRICK CAMPBELL
I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pocke...
SPIRO AGNEW
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order ...
MAURICE BLANCHOT
How often do I call my mom? You can never call your mum enough, and I should call my mum more often....
WILL POULTER
Silence is also speech
PROVERB
If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.
JOHN ENOCH POWELL
It was a fascinating time. I never regretted it.
JEANNE JOHNSTON
At forty-two I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and a...
WYNN BULLOCK
Silence is safer than speech.
EPICTETUS
At different stages of my life I made different mistakes, at times costly ones. But I never for once...
OLASOT
I had always thought of starting my own record company. I haven't regretted the decision - yet!
JULIAN LENNON
The fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech.
GEORGE T. DELACORTE
We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence
PROVERB
I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objecte...
ROBERT SMITH
A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
SUSAN GRIFFIN
Silence is golden; speech is silver
AMERICAN PROVERB
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech
EDITH WHARTON
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
EMILE M. CIORAN
[Then in 1985,] out of the blue ... I accepted with delight and have never regretted this decision.
LORD HAILSHAM
If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.
ENOCH POWELL
Speech is silvern, silence is golden.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Speech is silver; silence is golden.
SWISS PROVERB
I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's op...
JULES FEIFFER
I've never regretted coming to Buchanan.
RACHEL NICHOLS
I am weary of worldly gatherings, O Lord What pleasure in them, when the light in my heart is gone? ...
ARUNDHATI ROY
Playing for 14 years definitely took its toll mentally. I decided when I was playing my last season ...
ALAN HANSEN
You took my silence as my weakness, but the truth is I am silence because I love you.
YASMEEN KHAN
Speech is the small change of silence.
GEORGE MEREDITH
Speech is great; but silence is greater.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
SUSAN SONTAG
Speech is silver but silence is golden.
LEO TOLSTOY
no one ever asked me to lie and I was never promised a job for my silence.
DAVID KENDALL
I grew up to have my father's looks - my fathers speech patterns - my father's posture - my father's...
JULES FEIFFER
As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden, - "Speech is silver, Sile...
THOMAS CARLYLE
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as E...
THOMAS CARLYLE
Under all speech that is good for anything three lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as...
THOMAS CARLYLE
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as...
THOMAS CARLYLE
I defend
Not my voice, but my silence
ANNA AKHMATOVA
Silence has thousand meaning with no speech.Some speech may have thousand words with no meaning.
KOWSALAPATHY
I've always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my f...
DAVID BOWIE
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as e...
THOMAS CARLYLE
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
EDITH WHARTON
Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
MARTIN FRAQUHAR TUPPER
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
Well timed silence has more eloquence than speech.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
Well-timed silence has more eloquence than speech.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE
Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted th...
LISA KLEYPAS
While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to som...
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS
It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but...
MURIEL SPARK
Speech is civilization itself... It is silence which isolates.
THOMAS MANN
Various circumstances, mainly to do with my military service, prevented me from doing a Ph.D., and I...
YVES CHAUVIN
I choose totally by instinct. And the only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've re...
JULIA ROBERTS
I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to...
ADAM SANDLER
No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.
SYDNEY POLLACK
I have regretted being implicated in the circumstances.
PAUL AUSSARESSES
I have never heard a more eloquent silence.
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON
Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact / it is silence which isolates.
THOMAS MANN
Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inab...
SAMUEL BECKETT
A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech
PLUTARCH
Everything that I have is natural - braid, nails - I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask...
YULIA TYMOSHENKO
Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS
Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.
THOMAS CARLYLE
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M.I.SHAIKH MY SELF
It's raining spiders, seriously. Maybe that's a bad sign.
MY MORNING JACKET
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MY MORNING JACKET
You go up there and it's just this amazing place on top of a mountain,
MY MORNING JACKET
My whole life is about winning. I don't lose often. I almost never lose.
DONALD TRUMP
The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
SYLVIA PLATH
I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.
BARTON GELLMAN
It could have changed my career right there. I was worried. I definitely regretted it as soon as it ...
JASON HAMMEL
I am often the brunt of my own humor.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
THOMAS CARLYLE
As for my batting, the best part about it is I have never changed it. I have never changed my thinki...
VIRENDER SEHWAG
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silenc...
AESCHYLUS

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