"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."
― Thomas Carlyle
Topic(s):
Age
More From Thomas Carlyle
- "Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation."
- "Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will."
- "Clever men are good, but they are not the best."
More In Age
- "Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age."― Georg C. Lichtenberg
- "My husband gave me a necklace. It’s fake. I requested fake. Maybe I’m paranoid, but in this day and age, I don’t want something around my neck that’s worth more than my head."― Rita Rudner
- "I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term."― Joni Mitchell