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Fools and foolishness

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
- Proverb, English
Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

1.
He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
Cervantes, Miguel De

2.
No one but a fool is always right.
Hare, David

3.
Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
Boileau, Nicholas

4.
That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them.
Sutro, Alfred

5.
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
Korda, Michael

6.
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Bernstein, Al

7.
While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.
Grumet, Gerald W.

8.
The fool is always beginning to live.
Proverb

9.
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t.
Billings, Josh

10.
What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.
Proverb, Spanish

11.
Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.
Bioleau

12.
It is rude to silence a fool, and cruelty to let him go on.

13.
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.
Billings, Josh

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

16.
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

17.
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
Shaw, George Bernard

18.
If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.
Proverb, Chinese

19.
Its quite true there's a fool born every minute. It's also quite true they don't die that fast.

20.
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.

21.
A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.
Mizner, Wilson

22.
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
Billings, Josh

23.
The fool needs company, the wise solitude.
Ruckett

24.
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

25.
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.
He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.
Proverb, English

27.
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

28.
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
Balzac, Honore De

29.
A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.
Bernstein, Al

30.
In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool.
Proverb, Yiddish

31.
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

33.
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

34.
Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
Lorimer, Geroge

35.
Most fools think they are only ignorant.
Franklin, Benjamin

36.
Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
Proverb, Jewish

37.
A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
Seneca

38.
Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.
Russell, Bertrand

39.
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

40.
No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
Goldsmith, Oliver

41.
The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
Steele, Sir Richard

42.
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Goldsmith, Oliver

43.
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
Boileau, Nicholas

44.
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
Butler, Samuel

45.
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

46.
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
Proverb, African

47.
A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
Confucius

48.
Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
Brown, Gene

49.
Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.
Luther, Martin

50.
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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