Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Fielding, Henry

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

1.

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

Billings, Josh

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Korda, Michael

5.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

6.

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

7.

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

Proverb, Jewish

8.

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

Ellis, Havelock

9.

Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.

Smith, Wes

10.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

11.

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

12.

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

Goldsmith, Oliver

13.

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

Collins, John Churton

14.

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

Horace

15.

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

Billings, Josh

16.

Its quite true there's a fool born every minute. It's also quite true they don't die that fast.

17.

Spinoza Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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.

19.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Balzac, Honore De

20.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

21.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

23.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.

Proverb, African

25.

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

26.

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

Lorimer, Geroge

27.

Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

28.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Eliot, George

29.

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

30.

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

Sutro, Alfred

31.

He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.

Proverb, English

32.

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

33.

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

34.

The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.

Shadwell, Thomas

35.

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

Mizner, Wilson

36.

The fool has to do at last what the wise did at first.

Proverb, Italian

37.

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