Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness
A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
Seneca
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
Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
Lorimer, Geroge
That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them.
Sutro, Alfred
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.
He who knows he who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child, teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep, wake him. He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise, follow him.
Proverb, Persian
What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.
Proverb, Spanish
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
Moliere
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
Billings, Josh
A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
Confucius
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
Its quite true there's a fool born every minute. It's also quite true they don't die that fast.
A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
Proverb, Welsh
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
No one but a fool is always right.
Hare, David
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
Balzac, Honore De
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
Boileau, Nicholas
If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.
Proverb, Chinese
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
A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
Collins, John Churton
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Lincoln, Abraham
Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.
Russell, Bertrand
The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
Steele, Sir Richard
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Ellis, Havelock
It is rude to silence a fool, and cruelty to let him go on.
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
Shadwell, Thomas
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
However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
Boileau, Nicholas
He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.
Proverb, English
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Goldsmith, Oliver
Fools are without number.
Erasmus, Desiderius
Spinoza Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Franklin, Benjamin
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Fielding, Henry
Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.
Smith, Wes
Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
Proverb, Jewish
In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool.
Proverb, Yiddish
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt.
Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.
Luther, Martin
He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
Cervantes, Miguel De
The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. [Measure For Measure]
Shakespeare, William
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
Butler, Samuel
A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.
Mizner, Wilson
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t.
Billings, Josh
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?
Freehill, Maurice
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.
Billings, Josh
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
Shaw, George Bernard
A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.
Bernstein, Al
While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.
Grumet, Gerald W.
The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
Erasmus, Desiderius
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
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