"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." — Abraham Lincoln
update: hmmm, then again, even though there are lots of pages that attribute this to Lincoln, it definitely has a Twain-ish ring to it. Unfortunately I am unable to find an authorative reference one way or another.
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Thanks. I was thinking Mark Twain, but couldn't find it.
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The quote is by Mark Twain but I'm not sure what the direct quote is.
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You may mean: "Better to keep your mount shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt".
Attributed to Mark Twain (or whatever he was calling himself), in "The Sayings of Mark Twain", James Munson. May be apocryphal. From a real paper book (!): The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations, by Ned Sherrin. I'll shut-up now.
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I had a vague recollection that it was Mark Twain... | [reply] |