Dionysius I of Syracuse quotes

“Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.”
-- Dionysius I of Syracuse

Source : "Handy-book of Literary Curiosities". Book by William Shepard Walsh, 1892.

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“I would like somebody to be hated more than I am.”
-- Dionysius I of Syracuse

Source : "The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption". Book by Clive Foss, 2006.

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“Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.277, Macmillan

“I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.”

“There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.”

“Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.”

“Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.”

“We will not be silent. We will not obey. We will not allow our government to destroy our humanity.”

Source : "Gun activist Adam Kokesh charged" By Laurie Ure, www.cnn.com. July 28, 2013.

“Be silent always when you doubt your sense.”

“The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.'”

“I have often repented of having spoken, but never of having been silent.”

“A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.”

Source : Bess Wallace Truman, Harry S. Truman (2011). “Dear Harry, Love Bess: Bess Truman's Letters to Harry Truman, 1919–1943”, p.11, Truman State University Press