Motivational Quotes

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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

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

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

Confucius

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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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

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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

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

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Eliot, George

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

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

Proverb, Welsh

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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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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

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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Proverb, English

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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.

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Luther, Martin

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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.