“If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.”
“Silence, yes, but what silence! For it is all very fine to keep silence, but one has also to consider the kind of silence one keeps.”
“Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.”
“It is better to keep one's way straight than to waylay any one.”
“She makes a silent vow to be a vegetarian from now on even if she has to starve to do it. Better that than even the remote possibility of eating one's friends and fellow sufferers.”
“There is one thing better than making a new friend,and that is keeping a old one.”