Once (when I was little) my sister handed my brother her fortune as another way to tell him to shut up.
It said, of course, Silence is golden. For awhile, we use to pass it around to each other.
Alas, those piddly little paper fortunes aren’t built to last that continued erm…use.
But we still use that phrase instead of telling one another to shut up.
I don’t collect them myself, but I find it amusing that at least three
different people have (independently) kept the same fortune for me.
They read: You discover treasure where others see nothing unusual.
If you saw my place, you’d understand.