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• Silence never solved anything.
• I'm not cheap, you know. Loud, but never cheap.
• Silence is a friend who will never betray. -- Cervante
• Never look a gift horse in the mouth. -- Saint Jerome
• I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
• I believe that silence is golden. (Edmund opens mouth to speak).
  .............(closes it again)...... ......(clears throat)....
• A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Love's Labour 's Lost -- Act v, Sc. 2...
• On a lone barren isle, where the wild roaring billows Assail the stern rock
  and the loud tempests rave, The hero lies still, while the dew-drooping willows, Like fond weeping mourners, lean over his grave....
• If you keep your mouth shut you'll never put your foot in it.