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Fools and foolishness

Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.
- Smith, Wes
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.
If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.
Proverb, Chinese

3.
Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.
Russell, Bertrand

4.
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

5.
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

6.
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

7.
A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
Seneca

8.
Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.
Bioleau

9.
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Fielding, Henry

10.
A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.
Bernstein, Al

11.
In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool.
Proverb, Yiddish

12.
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
Shadwell, Thomas

13.
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
Korda, Michael

14.
A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
Collins, John Churton

15.
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.

16.
The fool has to do at last what the wise did at first.
Proverb, Italian

17.
Spinoza Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Franklin, Benjamin

18.
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

19.
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

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

22.
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Horace

23.
A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
Proverb, Welsh

24.
However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
Boileau, Nicholas

25.
Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
Brown, Gene

26.
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Ellis, Havelock

27.
The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
Steele, Sir Richard

28.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Lincoln, Abraham

29.
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
Shaw, George Bernard

30.
Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
Lorimer, Geroge

31.
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.

32.
The fool needs company, the wise solitude.
Ruckett

33.
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Goldsmith, Oliver

34.
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?
Freehill, Maurice

35.
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

36.
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

37.
A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
Confucius

38.
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.
Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
Proverb, Jewish

40.
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
Billings, Josh

41.
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
Eliot, George

42.
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
Proverb, African

43.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt.

44.
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

45.
The fool is always beginning to live.
Proverb

46.
The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. [Measure For Measure]
Shakespeare, William

47.
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
Butler, Samuel

48.
No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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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