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Fools and foolishness

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



Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

1.
No one but a fool is always right.
Hare, David

2.
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

3.
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
Shadwell, Thomas

4.
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.
Billings, Josh

5.
He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
Cervantes, Miguel De

6.
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

7.
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
Boileau, Nicholas

8.
Most fools think they are only ignorant.
Franklin, Benjamin

9.
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

10.
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
Billings, Josh

11.
What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.
Proverb, Spanish

12.
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
Korda, Michael

13.
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
Shaw, George Bernard

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

15.
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

16.
Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.
Smith, Wes

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

18.
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

19.
The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. [Measure For Measure]
Shakespeare, William

20.
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.

21.
If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.
Proverb, Chinese

22.
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

23.
However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
Boileau, Nicholas

24.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt.

25.
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Goldsmith, Oliver

26.
Spinoza Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Franklin, Benjamin

27.
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

28.
Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
Brown, Gene

29.
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Ellis, Havelock

30.
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
Disraeli, Isaac

31.
A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
Confucius

32.
Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
Proverb, Jewish

33.
Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
Lorimer, Geroge

34.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Lincoln, Abraham

35.
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?
Freehill, Maurice

36.
Its quite true there's a fool born every minute. It's also quite true they don't die that fast.

37.
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

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

39.
The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
Steele, Sir Richard

40.
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

41.
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
Moliere

42.
While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.
Grumet, Gerald W.

43.
Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.
Russell, Bertrand

44.
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

45.
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

46.
Fools are without number.
Erasmus, Desiderius

47.
The fool needs company, the wise solitude.
Ruckett

48.
A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.
Mizner, Wilson

49.
A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.
Bernstein, Al

50.
A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
Proverb, Welsh


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