Silent Era

Famous quotes containing the words silent and/or era:

“Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail to notice that their presence provokes in the weary or preoccupied host a feeling akin to hatred, and that this feeling is tensely concealed and covered up with lies.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)