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Fools and foolishness

No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
- Goldsmith, Oliver
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Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

1.
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

2.
Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.
Bioleau

3.
The fool needs company, the wise solitude.
Ruckett

4.
Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
Boileau, Nicholas

5.
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
Butler, Samuel

6.
Spinoza Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Franklin, Benjamin

7.
It is rude to silence a fool, and cruelty to let him go on.

8.
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
Korda, Michael

9.
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Goldsmith, Oliver

10.
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

11.
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
Shadwell, Thomas

12.
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

13.
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

14.
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

15.
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t.
Billings, Josh

16.
Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
Proverb, Jewish

17.
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Bernstein, Al

18.
A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
Confucius

19.
No one but a fool is always right.
Hare, David

20.
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

21.
Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.
Luther, Martin

22.
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.
Billings, Josh

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

25.
Most fools think they are only ignorant.
Franklin, Benjamin

26.
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

27.
He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
Cervantes, Miguel De

28.
Its quite true there's a fool born every minute. It's also quite true they don't die that fast.

29.
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

30.
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.

31.
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

32.
The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. [Measure For Measure]
Shakespeare, William

33.
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Fielding, Henry

34.
A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
Seneca

35.
That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them.
Sutro, Alfred

36.
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

37.
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.
The fool has to do at last what the wise did at first.
Proverb, Italian

39.
If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.
Proverb, Chinese

40.
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

41.
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Ellis, Havelock

43.
In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool.
Proverb, Yiddish

44.
Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.
Smith, Wes

45.
No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
Goldsmith, Oliver

46.
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
Shaw, George Bernard

47.
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

48.
Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
Lorimer, Geroge

49.
Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
Proverb, English

50.
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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