Aujourd'hui, ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'e"  tre dit, on le chante. Today, what is not worth being said is sung.

-Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de
  Le Barbier de Se¤  ville, act1, sc.2.

So much they talked, so very little said.

-Churchill, Charles
The Rosciad, l.550.

A thing well said will be wit in all languages†though it may lose something in the translation.

-Dryden,John
  An Essay of Dramatic Poesy,'The Wit of the  Ancients: The Universal'.

Todo se ha escrito, todo se ha dicho, todo se ha hecho, oyo¤   Dios que le dec|¤an y a u¤ n no hab|¤a creado el mundo, todav|¤a no hab|¤a nada.Tambie¤  n eso ya me lo han dicho, repuso quiza¤   desde la vieja, hendida Nada.Ycomenzo¤  . Everything has been written, everything has been said, everything has been made: that's what God heard before creating the world, when there was nothing yet. I have also heard that one, he may have answered from the old, split Nothingness. And then he began.

-Ferna¤ n dez, Macedonio
  Museo de la novela de la Eterna ('The Museum of Eternity's Novel'),'Pro¤  logo a la eternidad'.

When I went to the Bar as a very young man, (Said I to myselfösaid I), I'll work on a new and original plan, (Said I to myselfösaid I).

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  Iolanthe, act1.

Tout est dit, et l'on vient trop tard depuis plus de sept mille ans qu'il y a des hommes et qui pensent. Everything has been said. After seven thousand years of human thought, we have come too late.

-La Bruye'  re,Jean de
  Les Caracte'  res ou les m½urs de ce sie'  cle,'Des ouvrages de l'esprit', no.1.

When all is said and done, leading a good life is more important than keeping a good diary.

-Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain
  Diary entry, 8 Jul.

Was sich u« b erhaupt sagen l a« sst, l a« sst sich klar sagen; und wovon man nicht reden kann, daru«  ber muss man schweigen. What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent.

-Wittgenstein, LudwigJosef Johann
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, preface (translated by Frank Ramsey).