“The tongue may be an unruly member--
But silence poisons the soul.”
Source: Spoon River Anthology
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“But on her side the Colchian ceases not to foam with hellish poisons and to sprinkle all the silences of Lethe's bough: exerting her spells she constrains his reluctant eyes, exhausting all her Stygian power of hand and tongue.”
Contra Tartareis Colchis spumare venenis
cunctaque Lethaei quassare silentia rami
perstat et adverso luctantia lumina cantu
obruit atque omnem linguaque manuque fatigat
vim Stygiam.
Source: Argonautica, Book VIII, Lines 83–87

“Silence is a deadly poison when you have no words.”
All Fall Down
Heavy Rotation (2008)

“Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

James 3:5-6 http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/book.php?book=James&chapter=3&verse=25&t=1, KJV

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.”
Source: Fool's Errand