Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

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

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth 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

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
Benjamin Franklin

A fool and his money are soon elected.
Will Rogers

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
William Shakespeare

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Robert Frost

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau

He who hesitates is a damned fool.
Mae West

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Hunter S. Thompson

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Jonathan Swift

My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.
Jonathan Swift

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
Jonathan Swift