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Silence is Golden; Children should be seen and not heard? Is that correct? Does it mean that children should be only seen as an ornament and not listened to? Please give me your invaluable opinions!! ... (Asked by Firestrike93)
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Nothing could be further from the truth, apart perhaps from George Bush's claim that Iraq had WMD's. This antiquated saying originated in Victorian England and is a reflection of that society's contempt for children and the view that children were an unfortunate side effect of having sex. Remember contraceptives methods were non existent in those days and if you indulged in sexual activity you inevitably ended up getting pregnant. The saying originated in predominately middle and upper class households as the working classes were happy enough simply to exploit their kids by employing them in various industrial establishments and other dangerous ...(Answered by Shakespeare)

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About "silence of the lambs"? what poetry does the sentence originate from I have heard that it is from a poem from the 18th centry Who wrote it and what is the name ... (Asked by qazimodo)
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It is not the title but rather the concept of Hannibal Lecter that supposedly has its roots in an 19th-century poem. <<Another of Lecter's literary sources is a little trickier. The name and notion of Hannibal Lecter grew - at some level of consciousness, at some stage of development, perhaps the earliest - from Baudelaire's great poem of preface to Les Fleurs du Mal, "Au Lecteur" (To The Reader). There seems little doubt of this, although Harris, while trailing his coat about other writers, has been careful to avoid referring to those, such as Poe, Conan Doyle and Baudelaire, from whom he ...(Answered by refugiotrans)

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if you can't understand my silence you won't understand my words. where can i find this quote? ... (Asked by Aubrey R)
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An intelligent web search for this quotation gets thousands of hits, but the first fifty are all either (1) asking the same question as you, or (2) quoting it without giving a source, or (3) giving its source as "anonymous" or "author unknown". It sounds like a sort of Zen thing to me, a master's reply to an impatient student....(Answered by bh8153)

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what does "dead men walk in silence" mean? ... (Asked by jus_askin)
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It means if my husband comes home drunk and later than he said he was going to be, that he knows he is dead so he tip toes through the house and he keeps his mouth shut and does house work the next day without saying a word....(Answered by imalwysrite)

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What does this quote mean? "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." Martin Luther King, Jr ... (Asked by HongChau D)
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I guess it means that at the end the thing that u may remember most and that may hurt u the most is the fact that ur friends didnt stand by u, they didnt speak up for u, or didnt support u and stand by ur side through this crucial time in ur life.. wutever the cause wuz, ur friends or supposed friends betrayed u when they were needed...so the words of ur enemies(who dont mean much to you), will not hurt u as much as the lack of words or actions of ur friends(which are the people who meant the ...(Answered by vOxNihili)

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Where does the phrase "The Silence of the Lambs" come from and what does it mean? Yeah, I know a Hollywood movie used the phrase as its title, but I'm sure it didn't originate there. ... (Asked by Eagleflyer)
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I don't know the origin though I suspect it was a shepard. The phrase refers to the lambs being led to slaughter. They are blissfully unaware (ignorant or innocent) of the coming event, so they follow quietly to thier demise....(Answered by wmsterling)

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Only talk when it improves the silence? How does Alexis de Tocqueville's quote " We succed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel at those which also make use of our defects" connect to the political maxim "Only talk when it improves the silence" and relate that to Senator Ed Muskie? ... (Asked by Kalki)
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You have one quote and then a maxim and finally a US Senator here. Since religion (internal truth) and economics (external truth of science) relate to our life in society through politics, the two quotes are contradictions which would trigger some lively debate. Was Muskie good at debate? We seem to worship the dynamics of debate too much when actually what Socrates did was a less-theatrical search for mutual benefits of truth through give-and-take between listener and speaker. Herein we have no demand for a winner/loser outcome. This is not a new reinterpretation. We have none of the possible writings ...(Answered by clophad)

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Who was the Jewish man that spoke at the March on Washington about silence? I'm writing an essay (due Monday) about silence. I was ready an exerpt from a quote read by the man the other day but I can't remember his name or a helpful part of the quote besides the general message for anything. Does anyone know the Jewish man that spoke at the March on Washington about silence and what it did during the Holocaust? ... (Asked by Dani M)
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Here is a quote from Martin Niemoeller with obvious emphasis on silenced: "First they came for the Communists, -- but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, -- but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, -- but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, -- there was no one left to speak for me." Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Kommunist. Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein ...(Answered by ipygmalion)

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Who said "Silence is Golden"? ... (Asked by _LittleMissVixen_)
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SILENCE IS GOLDEN- It is NOT A QUOTE said by any one and it is the part of old proverb. Keeping one's mouth shut is a great virtue, as in Don't tell anyone else about it--silence is golden. Although this precise phrase was first recorded only in 1848, it is part of a much older proverb, "Speech is silver and silence is golden." -...(Answered by jayaraman)

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What value is there in "silence " according to Thomas More? its some kinda Quote in the movie "a man for all seasons" but i can't find it ... (Asked by Bribri)
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This page in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) gives memorable quotes from "A Man for All Seasons" - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060665/quotes Look at the third section of dialog on that page. You'll see the crucial exchange in court between Cromwell and More (yes, you spelled his name right) on the subject of silence....(Answered by Steve D)

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