Search in folklore: silence

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It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about merit, silence

Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking.

Proverbs and old sayings about silence

From the tree of silence hands the fruit of tranquility.

Proverbs and old sayings Peruvian about silence

Great things can best be said in silence.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about silence, things

Even silence is an answer.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about silence

More have repented speech than silence.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about silence

The word is silver, the silence is gold.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about silence, word

The newborn baby yells; you die in silence.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about silence

A judge and a stomach do their asking in silence.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about silence, judges

The spoken word sometimes loses what silence has won.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about silence, word

Along silence followed by mighty noise.

Proverbs and old sayings about silence

Noble deeds are done in silence.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about deeds, silence

He who cannot keep silence cannot speak.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about silence

There is no reply to the ignorant like keeping silence.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about silence

If speech is of silver, silence is golden.

Proverbs and old sayings Yemenite about silence

Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about talking, nature, silence, wisdom

I grew up among wise men and found that there is nothing better for man than silence.

Proverbs and old sayings about silence, man, nothing

We were silenced by our patience, he entered with his donkey.

Proverbs and old sayings about patience

When people only talk about things they understand then a great silence will descend upon the world.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about silence, world, things, people

A language silenced is a people who die.

Proverbs and old sayings about language, people