Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

silence is double -eadged weapon . it has advantages and disadavantages. we can use silence when we donot want to say bad words to someone when he gets us angery or do not have good answer. we mustnot use it to get bad harms to someone like who saw a crim and didnot speak about it . this is so bad.

If silence is golden, then those who are dumb are the richest people on earth...:-)

Some translations are here http://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reden_ist_Silber,_Schweigen_ist_Gold Arabic: إذا كان الكلام من فضة، فالسكوت من ذهب English: Speech is silver, but silence is golden Esperanto: Parolo estas arĝento, oron similas silento French: la parole est d'argent, le silence est d'or Japanese: 言わぬが花 (いわぬがはな, iwanuga hana) (to say nothing is a flower) Dutch: Spreken is zilver, zwijgen is goud Persian:اگر حرف از نقره است، خاموشی از طلاست Polish: Mowa jest srebrem, a milczenie złotem Russian: Слово - серебро, молчание - золото Swedish: Tala är silver, tiga är guld Spanish: Hay cosas que más valdría haber dejado sin decir, En boca cerrada no entran moscas Czech: Mluviti stříbro, mlčeti zlato German: Reden ist Silber, Schweigen ist Gold. I also found this: http://quiss.bildung-rp.de/quiss/downloads/sprueche/say4.doc Reden ist Silber - und Schweigen hat viele Gesichter. In English: Talk is silver - and silence has many faces.

No, it's not "gold", but it is "golden".