“Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.”
Source: Post Office (1971)
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Charles Bukowski 555
American writer 1920–1994Related quotes

“7) Any damn fool can predict the past.”
Unsourced variant: Any damned fool can predict the past. And most do.
Niven's Laws

“Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.”

“5272. Travel makes a wise Man better, but a Fool worse.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Source: The True Game, The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped (1985), Chapter 3 (p. 45)

Better Way.
Song lyrics, Both Sides of the Gun (2006)

“Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.”

“If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.”
1 Corinthians 3:18 (KJV)
First Epistle to the Corinthians