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Fools and foolishness

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

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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Fielding, Henry

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

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

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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Brown, Gene

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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Horace

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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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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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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

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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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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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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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

Freehill, Maurice

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

Korda, Michael

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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

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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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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Eliot, George

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

Confucius

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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

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The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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