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Sherlock

You were thinking. It’s annoying.

Sherlock Holmes: Shut up.
Lestrade: I didn’t say anything.
Sherlock Holmes: You were thinking. It’s annoying.

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Up

Let’s play “Who Can Be Quiet The Longest.”

Carl: Let’s play “Who Can Be Quiet The Longest.”
Russell: Cool! My mom loves that game!

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Brief Encounter

I wish you’d stop prying and trying to find things out.

Laura: I wish you’d stop talking. I wish you’d stop prying and trying to find things out. I wish you were dead – no, I don’t mean that. It was silly and unkind, and I shouldn’t have said it. But I do wish you’d stop talking.

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The Simpsons

Better say something or they’ll think you’re stupid.

Lisa: It is better to remain silent and be thought the fool, then to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Homer’s Brain: Uh-oh, what did that mean? Better say something or they’ll think you’re stupid.
Homer: Takes one to know one!
Homer’s Brain: Swish!

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Sam Rayburn

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

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Ernest Hemingway

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

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Publilius Syrus

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

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Abraham Lincoln Mark Twain Samuel Johnson

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.