Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

1.

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

Billings, Josh

2.

He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

Cervantes, Miguel De

3.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

4.

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

Smith, Wes

5.

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

Proverb, Welsh

6.

In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool.

Proverb, Yiddish

7.

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

Proverb, Spanish

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Billings, Josh

11.

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

12.

The great God endows His children variously. To some he gives intellect -- and they move the earth. To some he allots heart -- and the beating pulse of humanity is theirs. But to some He gives only a soul, without intelligence -- and these, who never grow up, but remain always His children, are God's fools, kindly, elemental, simple, as if from His palette the Artist of all had taken one color instead of many.

Rinehart, Mary Roberts

13.

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

Proverb, English

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

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

Proverb, African

19.

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

Balzac, Honore De

20.

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

Horace

21.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

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

24.

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?

Freehill, Maurice

25.

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

Ellis, Havelock

26.

No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.

Goldsmith, Oliver

27.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

28.

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

Korda, Michael

29.

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

Luther, Martin

30.

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

Proverb, Italian

31.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

33.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

34.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

35.

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

Proverb, Jewish

36.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Collins, John Churton

40.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

41.

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

42.

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

Sutro, Alfred

43.

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

44.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

45.

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

Lorimer, Geroge

46.

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

Billings, Josh

47.

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

48.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

49.

No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

50.

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