Quote #118
It is better to stay silent and let people think you are an idiot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
More from Abraham Lincoln
- It's my experience that folks who have no vices have generally very few virtues.
- Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
- Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to…
- Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
- Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
- No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.