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Fools and foolishness

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
Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

1.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt.

2.
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
Moliere

3.
Most fools think they are only ignorant.
Franklin, Benjamin

4.
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
Disraeli, Isaac

5.
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t.
Billings, Josh

6.
Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
Proverb, English

7.
He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
Cervantes, Miguel De

8.
Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum.
Updike, John

9.
The fool needs company, the wise solitude.
Ruckett

10.
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Bernstein, Al

11.
Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
Brown, Gene

12.
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
Billings, Josh

13.
A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.
Mizner, Wilson

14.
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.

15.
Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.
Smith, Wes

16.
What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.
Proverb, Spanish

17.
Fools are without number.
Erasmus, Desiderius

18.
Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
Proverb, Jewish

19.
A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
Seneca

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

22.
Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.
Russell, Bertrand

23.
No one but a fool is always right.
Hare, David

24.
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

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

27.
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?
Freehill, Maurice

28.
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

29.
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Fielding, Henry

30.
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

31.
Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.
Luther, Martin

32.
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
Proverb, African

33.
It is rude to silence a fool, and cruelty to let him go on.

34.
If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.
Proverb, Chinese

35.
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

36.
That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them.
Sutro, Alfred

37.
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
Butler, Samuel

38.
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Goldsmith, Oliver

39.
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.
Billings, Josh

40.
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.
Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
Boileau, Nicholas

42.
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Horace

43.
A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
Proverb, Welsh

44.
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
Shadwell, Thomas

45.
A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
Collins, John Churton

46.
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

47.
The fool is always beginning to live.
Proverb

48.
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

49.
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
Balzac, Honore De

50.
Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
Lorimer, Geroge


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