The Cone of Silence.............

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. 
Elizabeth I 
 
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. 
George Bernard Shaw 


I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. 
Khalil Gibran 

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrusts himself. 
Francois de La Rochefoucauld 

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. 
Elbert Hubbard 

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. 
Martin Luther King, Jr.


A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
Emile M. Cioran 

Silence is the virtue of fools. 
Francis Bacon 


Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish. 
Charles Caleb Colton

I crave a cone of silence every once in while. 
Laura Linney 

Ed. Note:   The picture above is from the TV show Get Smart.  Max and the Chief used the "Cone of Silence" to talk secretly.   Once in the Cone, however, they couldn't hear each other so they would shout until everyone could hear them.  Great TV!