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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.


Mark Twain

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MARK TWAIN It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt
MARK TWAIN It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
SAMUEL JOHNSON It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and r...
RAMI BELSON It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
SILVAN ENGEL It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt.
SOURCE UNKNOWN It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt...
MAURICE SWITZER Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN It's better to stay silent and look a fool, rather than speak and remove all doubt.
MARK TWAIN Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
UNKNOWN 'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release ...
SOURCE UNKNOWN If you want to meet Mark Twain, all you have to do is use your brain!
STEVE RAY COLLINS Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of par...
MARK TWAIN You should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thi...
JOHN GREEN It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do wh...
MARK TWAIN Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.
SOURCE UNKNOWN The key to a healthy marriage is to keep your eyes wide open before you wed and half-closed thereaft...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated art...
MARK TWAIN It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD It's better to keep quiet and have people think you stupid, than to talk and confirm it.
MARK TWAIN Keep your mouth shut and your ears open.
ENGLISH PROVERB Forgive your enemies, but don't give them a second chance to stay in your life and destroy you again...
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NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO It's time to open your eyes, and notice.You are almost there, DON'T let YOUR pain and YOUR struggles...
PHILIP T. M. If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open.
NAVJOT SINGH SIDHU You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had ...
JOEL OSTEEN When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut
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SALMAN RUSHDIE It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.
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SANDRA K. COOK It is better to remove the beam from your eye, before you remove the splinter from someone elses.
DUTCH PROVERB Let people doubt your sanity. Let them think you’re nuts. Be the mad scientist, the wise fool, the...
AMY MCTEAR How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???

What's the idea???
DEYTH BANGER Risks can lead to great victories or defeats. Even if you are defeated, the lesson will be valuable ...
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exac...
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JOSHILYN JACKSON All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that har...
MARGARET ATWOOD It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep yo...
TUCKER CARLSON Confound it, it's foolish, Tom
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CRISTIANO RONALDO You are always afraid that somebody may think you a fool. You are afraid that if others think you to...
OSHO When you find that you are on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain
STEVE J. LEATHERWOOD Positive words come from positive thoughts. It implies, when you open your mouth to talk for people ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Your better life is as close and as easy as making the choice to pick up your Bible each day, open i...
ELIZABETH GEORGE It's better to be thought of as a fool and to surprise people once in a while than to be thought of ...
JULIE MELANSON A fool, but an honest fool, you remain, Peregrin Took. Wiser ones migth have done worse in such a pa...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like ...
DIANA ROSS A wealth of experience and wisdom doesn't have to be a dead giveaway to your increasing years. The s...
JAYLEIGH CAPE She parted her lips as though she were going to scold him, but, after a moment of sitting with her m...
KELSEY BRICKL If you rest your chin on your hand when you think, it will help you keep your mouth shut.
VIKRANT PARSAI So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER It is better to remove the weeds from your own garden, before you start with your neighbours.
DUTCH PROVERB if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see i...
NORTON JUSTER For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men...
BRUCE BURTON For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men...
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AMY POEHLER And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed
OSCAR WILDE Sometimes it was better to keep Pandora's box closed.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Mark Twain: A Life
RON POWERS If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you.
Either you just let the grudge go, or mak...
TOBA BETA When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
SACHA GUITRY When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your ...
LUELLA F. PHEAN Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your de...
LUELLA F. PHEAN To paraphrase Mark Twain, our demise is greatly exaggerated.
CHRIS DONLAY Mark Twain.
FRIENDS Let your actions speak LOVE. No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO When we cut down an destroy rain forests we are not only killing living things that have been on thi...
GARY F EVANS... If it’s history, let it be history.
BEN TOLOSA Life's not perfect. Some loose ends may never get trimmed up and tidied.
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ROY T. BENNETT Her hormones slipped into their sexy underwear with a grin.
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Keep your silence
It is a better gift than truth
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E. LOCKHART Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
ROBERT J. HANLON Its not what the universe gives us that matters, but what we give the universe
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GARY F EVANS... I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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