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minus-square𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43arrow-down1·7 months agoHow does that quote go? Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, than open your mouth and be confirmed one. Something like that. Anyway, it applies here.
minus-squarePothetato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up46·7 months ago“…than to open your mouth and remove all doubt”
minus-square𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·7 months agoThat’s it! Do you remember who said it?
minus-squarePothetato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·7 months agoPretty sure it was Mark Confucious Twain Switzer…Jr.
minus-squareironhydroxide@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-27 months agoPothetato said it
minus-squareSupervisor194@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-27 months agoSadly, the author isn’t actually known.
minus-squareantoine@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·7 months ago‘Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.’
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoSo Mark Twain then, since he said everything. Or Shakespeare.
minus-squareWhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·7 months agoWilson, Tim Taylor’s neighbour.
minus-squarera1d3n@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·7 months agoThe Romans, google this: si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.
How does that quote go? Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, than open your mouth and be confirmed one. Something like that. Anyway, it applies here.
“…than to open your mouth and remove all doubt”
That’s it! Do you remember who said it?
Albert Abraham Einstein Lincoln.
Pretty sure it was Mark Confucious Twain Switzer…Jr.
Pothetato said it
It wasn’t Sr?
Sadly, the author isn’t actually known.
‘Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.’
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing!
So Mark Twain then, since he said everything.
Or Shakespeare.
Wilson, Tim Taylor’s neighbour.
The Romans, google this: si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.
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