Source: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, 1999, p. 15
Source: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, 1999, p. 15
Part 1 : Fundamental Techniques in Handling People, p. 36.
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936)
Context: Benjamin Franklin, tactless in his youth, became so diplomatic, so adroit at handling people that he was made American Ambassador to France. The secret of his success? "I will speak ill of no man," he said, "... and speak all the good I know of everybody." Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving. "A great man shows his greatness," says Carlyle, "by the way he treats little men."
AJENCIS, THE THIRD ANALYTIC OF MEN.
The White Luck Warrior (2011)
“Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.”
Falsehood, iii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIX - Truth and Convenience
“Any fool can make a rule
And every fool will mind it.”
February 3, 1860
Journals (1838-1859)
Source: http://thoreau.library.ucsb.edu/writings_journals_pdfs/J15f4-f6.pdf#page=289
Source: Journal #14
“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain — and most fools do.”
Attributed in various post-2000 works, but actually Dale Carnegie in How to Win Friends and Influence People p.14 http://books.google.com/books?id=yxfJDVXClucC&pg=PA14&dq=fool, published in 1936. (N.B. Carnegie is quoting Franklin immediately prior to writing this, so attribution could be due to a printing error in some edition).
Misattributed
Source: Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge (1997), p. 169
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
