Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Brown, Gene

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

Eliot, George

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

Fielding, Henry

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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

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

Lorimer, Geroge

10.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

11.

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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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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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Proverb, English

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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

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The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Confucius

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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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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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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Luther, Martin

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Cervantes, Miguel De