Better To Keep Quiet Quotes

#1. Better to keep quiet and let people think you're an idiot than speak up and confirm it.

Rodney Dangerfield

#2. As any parent can tell you, it's better to keep your mouth shut and your eyes open when you go looking for kids who are being unreasonably quiet. They're probably doing something they don't want you to see, and if they hear you coming, they'll hide the evidence. I

Elizabeth Bear

#3. The subject of kissing seemed to be an awkward one. Better keep quiet about it in future. What was obviously important, was to kiss; not talk about it.

Peter St. John

#4. When you know something, you know it, and when you don't, you'd better learn. And in the meantime, you should keep quiet, or at least speak only when what you say will advance the learning process.

Roberto Bolano

#5. A believer is an evangelist primarily by who he is and how he lives-not by what he says. What he says is important; but unless his speaking tallies with what he is and does, he had better keep quiet.

Joseph Sittler

#6. If someone has a better idea, be willing to listen with an open mind and keep quiet until they complete their thoughts.

Blair Singer

#7. That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.

Amy Tan

#8. A piece of advice his father had given him surfaced in Edgar's mind. Sometimes, he had said, it's better just to keep quiet and think with your heart.

Sharan Newman

#9. I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. de Maupassant. I've fought two draws with Mr. Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody's going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless I'm crazy or I keep getting better.

Ernest Hemingway,

#10. Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.

Bob Schaffer

#11. The crowning feature of the federal system is the supremacy of the judiciary over all other branches of government in matters relating to the rights of persons and property.

Charles A. Beard

#12. I remember my father explaining, "A capitalist system is a dog-eat-dog system."

Frances Fox Piven

#13. For God's sake, man," Ovid nearly shouted, "the damn globe is catching fire, and the islands are drowning. The evidence is staring them in the face.

Barbara Kingsolver

#14. Nobody looks perfect. We have to find peace with the way we look and get on with life.

Roger Ebert

#15. The old Romans knew better; to keep people quiet they filled their bellies.

John Dos Passos

#16. I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.

S. Jay Olshansky