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

21.

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

22.

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

Butler, Samuel

23.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

24.

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

Shadwell, Thomas

25.

Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

26.

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

Proverb, Jewish

27.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

28.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

29.

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

Proverb, Italian

30.

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

Lorimer, Geroge

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

Proverb, African

34.

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

35.

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

36.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

37.

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

38.

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

Proverb, English

39.

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

Smith, Wes

40.

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

Proverb, Welsh

41.

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

Fielding, Henry

42.

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

43.

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

Confucius

44.

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

Brown, Gene

45.

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

46.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

47.

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

48.

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

Balzac, Honore De

49.

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

50.

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

Eliot, George