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Fools and foolishness

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t.
- Billings, Josh
Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

1.
However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
Boileau, Nicholas

2.
That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them.
Sutro, Alfred

3.
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
Shadwell, Thomas

4.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Frost, Robert

5.
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
Korda, Michael

6.
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

7.
Most fools think they are only ignorant.
Franklin, Benjamin

8.
The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs of his neighbor.
Franklin, Benjamin

9.
In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.
Baudrillard, Jean

10.
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Ellis, Havelock

11.
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t.
Billings, Josh

12.
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
Moliere

13.
Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
Brown, Gene

14.
Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
Proverb, English

15.
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
Balzac, Honore De

16.
A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.
Mizner, Wilson

17.
When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
Chase, Ilka

18.
It is rude to silence a fool, and cruelty to let him go on.

19.
The fool needs company, the wise solitude.
Ruckett

20.
It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
Macmillan, Harold

21.
Why fools are endowed by nature with voices so much louder than sensible people possess is a mystery. It is a fact emphasized throughout history.
Hertzler

22.
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Bernstein, Al

23.
While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.
Grumet, Gerald W.

24.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Lincoln, Abraham

25.
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.
Billings, Josh

26.
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Heimel, Cynthia

27.
Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
Proverb, Jewish

28.
A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

29.
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
Shaw, George Bernard

31.
Fools are without number.
Erasmus, Desiderius

32.
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
Eliot, George

33.
If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.
Proverb, Chinese

34.
No one but a fool is always right.
Hare, David

35.
You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better -- the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.
Lewis, C. S.

36.
He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
Cervantes, Miguel De

37.
A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
Seneca

38.
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Fielding, Henry

39.
Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
Lorimer, Geroge

40.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt.

41.
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Horace

42.
In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant, a maid her mistress, a teacher his pupil, a friend his friend nor a wife her husband, a landlord his tenant, a soldier his comrade nor a party-goer his companion, unless they sometimes have illusions about each other, make use of flattery, and have the sense to turn a blind eye and sweeten life for themselves with the honey of folly.
Erasmus, Desiderius

43.
Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
Boileau, Nicholas

44.
Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.
Bioleau

45.
He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.
Proverb, English

46.
The fool has to do at last what the wise did at first.
Proverb, Italian

47.
A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
Proverb, Welsh

48.
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
Proverb, African

49.
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
Boileau, Nicholas

50.
The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. [Measure For Measure]
Shakespeare, William


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