What is source of "Silence is Golden?"

[Okie Mom]

As stated, I'm looking for the original quotation that is the source
of "Silence is Golden." THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS
attributes it to Thomas Carlyle in the following: "As the Swiss
Inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden (Speech
is silvern, Silence is golden); or as I might rather express it:
Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity." SARTOR RESARTUS, bk.
iii, ch. 3.

Is this the only source of this quotation that anyone knows of? Does
anyone know what the "Swiss inscription" to which Carlyle refers
might be?

THANKS.

[After him, you fools]

In <2sb58q$9...@search01.news.aol.com>, oki...@aol.com wrote:
>....................... THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS

>attributes it to Thomas Carlyle in the following: "As the Swiss
>Inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden (Speech
>is silvern, Silence is golden); or as I might rather express it:
>Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity." SARTOR RESARTUS, bk.
>iii, ch. 3.

My copy of Bergen Evans (I got it on sale) says it's a German proverb,
and goes back to the Babylonian Talmud. No idea about the inscription.

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"THE CLIMATIC THEORY. First advanced by Professor J. Elmer
Szycyznski of the University of Chicago in 1937. Szycyznski
theorized that during the Ice Age the Oral-Aural Coral froze to
death, in consequence of having neglected to put up the storm
windows. Adherents of the Graposaurus theory, however, immedi-
ately objected (in 1961) that such modern conveniences as storm
windows could not have been in general use during the Silurian
Era. It is now generally accepted that the entire Ice Age was
a myth, engendered when some dinosaur left his air-conditioner
running."

--Melanogaster J. Spigot, Ph.D., "On the
Neurobiology and Endocrinology of Some
Prehistoric Coelenterates"
--
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