“She preferred keeping her mouth shut and appearing a fool to opening it and removing the doubt.”

“It is better to keep your mouth closed and appear a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”

“It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt”

“... to have a lover and friend in one was the best love of all.”

“One of the chief paradoxes of our culture [is] that the welfare of its children, its _future_, is placed almost exclusively in the hands of people of low status, a class it holds in contempt.”

“Life is short, have dessert first.”

“It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.”