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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

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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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Billings, Josh

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

Billings, Josh

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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Billings, Josh

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.

Brown, Gene

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Sutro, Alfred

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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Horace

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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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

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Freehill, Maurice

37.

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

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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

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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.

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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.

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There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him. 2. The man who knows, but doesn't know that he knows; help him not forget what he knows. 3. The man who knows not, and knows that he knows not; teach him. 4. Finally, there is the man who knows not but pretends that he knows; he is a fool, so avoid him.

Gabirol, Ibn

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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, English

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