Skip to content
quotesby

About this quote

What does it mean?
People who act foolishly quickly leave or are removed.
In plain terms
Acting dumb gets you out fast.
What can you take from it?
Avoid foolishness to stay involved.

Where it applies

  • social groups
  • workplace
  • reputation management

Putting it to work

  • stay alert
  • avoid blunders

Questions to consider

  • What gets you in trouble?
  • Are you leaving too soon?

Another view

Sometimes humor or awkwardness is forgiven.

More from Walt Kelly

  1. If you wants to get elected president, you've got to think up some memorable homily so's school kids can be pestered into memorizin' it, even if they don't kno…

    Permalink to quote #25
  2. Knowledge and meaning can be too earnestly sought after. for the boy who, blind or helpless, can lie around and find moonlight and dancing girls going about th…

    Permalink to quote #27
  3. I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

    Permalink to quote #24

Related quotes

  1. I have made it a team rule that my players behave as gentlemen and dress as gentlemen. I wanted to end the popular conception that professional athletes were a…

    George HalasGeorge Halas quote #1
  2. If humiliation and rejection are to be the rewards of faithful and effective service in this field, what are those of us to conclude who have also served promi…

    George F. KennanGeorge F. Kennan quote #1
  3. A wikked tonge wol alway deme amis.

    John LydgateJohn Lydgate quote #1