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

Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Lincoln, Abraham

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Proverb, English

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Proverb, African

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Horace

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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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

Collins, John Churton

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

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

Smith, Wes

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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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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Eliot, George

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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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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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The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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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 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 needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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

Confucius

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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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