speech is silver, silence is golden
Not saying anything is often better than speaking too much or saying something inappropriate.
speech
UK /spiːt͡ʃ/ US /spiːt͡ʃ/
noun 5verb 1
Definitions
noun
1
The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate.
He had a bad speech impediment.
After the accident she lost her speech.
2
The act of speaking, a certain style of it.
It was hard to hear his speech over the noise.
Her speech was soft and lilting.
3
A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person.
The candidate made some ambitious promises in his campaign speech.
The constant design of both these orators, in all their speeches, was to drive some one particular point.
4
A dialect, vernacular, or (dated) a language.
For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech, and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel.
The speche of Englande is a base speche to other noble speches, as Italion, Castylion, and Frenche; howbeit the speche of Englande of late dayes is amended.
5
Language used orally, rather than in writing.
This word is mostly used in speech.
verb
1
To make (a speech); to harangue.
I'll speech against peace while Dismal's my name, / And be a true whig, while I'm Not-in-game.
So to Speeching he did go, / And like a Man of Senſe, / He certainly ſaid Ay or No,
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