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Fools and foolishness

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

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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.

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Confucius

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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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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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 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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There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t.

Billings, Josh

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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them.

Sutro, Alfred

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Brown, Gene

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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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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It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Eliot, George

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

Proverb, African

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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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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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A fool always finds a greater 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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.