Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Luther, Martin

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Confucius

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

Billings, Josh

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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

Sutro, Alfred

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

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Eliot, George

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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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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 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 fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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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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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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

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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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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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

Brown, Gene

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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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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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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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

Horace

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

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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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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Freehill, Maurice

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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