Sentence examples for thought a fool from inspiring English sources

As the saying goes: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt".

I'd be charged with assault and would be thought a fool for the rest of my life.

The first was to heed the proverb: "It is better to be quiet and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt".

There was a warning against oversimplification ("All generalizations are false, including this one") and a defense of silence ("It's best to be quiet and thought a fool than to open your mouth and relieve all doubt").

After that trip, you'd have thought that on foreign policy, Romney might remember the adage: Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Who is supposed to have said, variously, "you can't fool all the people all the time", "better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt", and "don't swap horses in mid-stream".

It is better to be quiet and thought a simple fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

"I thought, What a fool," says Reeder, who at that point had never met Welch.

He saw thousands of men going in for work, and he thought, What a fool I have been, never even to have tried to get work here.

That's what that old lady you think is a fool wants.

They are quite wrong, and now that she has James back she gives no thanks but thinks what a fool she was and how she could not give up her love of him any more than stop her heart beating.