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  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.”

Silence is golden

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1. Silence is of great value.

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silence is golden Idioms  

1. 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.”

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Some will insist otherwise, but the traditional advice might still work best: Silence is golden.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2022

Silence is golden, or so I was told when I was young.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2017

Silence is golden and, for Murray, apparently inspirational.

From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2016

Remember: Silence is golden and duct tape is silver, in case you cannot trust yourself not to push Baby Sister’s buttons.

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2012

It is easy to see, after the event, that this was a case where "Silence is golden."

From Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918 by Anonymous

The players, though, are starting to realize that silence is golden.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 14, 2023

In these times, he said, silence is golden.

From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2021

For the true sports fan, silence is golden.

From Slate ● May 27, 2020

The Washington Post's Glenn Kessler remarked dryly, "Sometimes silence is golden."

From Fox News ● Oct. 20, 2019

There are times when silence is golden, and one of those times is at hand.

From Walter Sherwood's Probation by Horatio Alger