“There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.”
Benedict of Nursia book Rule of Saint Benedict
Rule of Saint Benedict (516 AD), as edited by Timothy Fry, O. S. B (1981), p. 15
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
Source: Little Foxes (1865), Ch. 3.
Source: Little Foxes: Or, the Insignificant Little Habits Which Mar Domestic Happiness
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“The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.”
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) English composer
From an article in The Vocalist magazine, 1902; cited from Ursula Vaughan Williams RVW (1964) p. 400.
“Thoughts left unsaid are never wasted.”
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 22
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones.”
Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) Roman Catholic saint
Attributed to Teresa by Truman Capote in "An Interview with Truman Capote" by Don Lee Keith, in Contempora (October/November 1970), p. 40, as the source of the title of a work in progress which he intended as a novel, to be called Answered Prayers; no earlier publications of such an attribution has yet been located.
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Attributed in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes (1992) by Carolyn Warner
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“More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.”
Truman Capote (1924–1984) American author
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“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
“Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.”
Billy Graham (1918–2018) American Christian evangelist
“You left me drowning in my tears”
Jon Bon Jovi (1962) American singer and musician
Music, New Jersey (1988)
