Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
Bk. III, ch. 3.
1830s, Sartor Resartus (1833–1834)
“It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.”
Source: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden
Bk. III, ch. 3.
1830s, Sartor Resartus (1833–1834)
“I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being, neither white, black, brown nor red.”
Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist
Interview http://www.malcolm-x.org/docs/int_pbert.htm for the Pierre Berton Show. Toronto, Ontario, (19 January 1965) <br class="br">Attributed <br class="br">Context: I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being, neither white, black, brown nor red. When you are dealing with humanity as one family, there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being, or one human being living around and with another human being.
“And finds, with keen, discriminating sight,
Black ’s not so black,—nor white so very white.”
George Canning (1770–1827) British statesman and politician
New Morality.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Some say silence is golden, I choose noise.”
Blake Lewis (1981) American musician
[Blake Lewis' profile, http://myspace.com/blakelewis, 2007-06-04, MySpace]
["What Are You Doing This Weekend?: Bshorty Farewell Party with KJ Sawka + Ra Scion + Joe Doria", http://www.seattleweekly.com/music/blogs/reverb/what_are_you_doing_this_weekend/, 2007-06-04, January 26, 2007, Seattle Weekly, Aja Pecknold]
On music
Max Beckmann (1884–1950) German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer
Source: 1930s, On my Painting (1938), pp. 13-14
Song Silence is Golden http://www.lyricsdownload.com/tremeloes-silence-is-golden-lyrics.html
“Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.”
Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889) English writer and poet
Of Discretion.
Proverbial Philosophy (1838-1849)
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
King and No King http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1521/ <br class="br">The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910) <br class="br">Context: I that have not your faith, how shall I know<br>That in the blinding light beyond the grave<br>We’ll find so good a thing as that we have lost?<br>The hourly kindness, the day’s common speech,<br>The habitual content of each with each<br>When neither soul nor body has been crossed.