Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Proverb, English

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

Confucius

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

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

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

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

Horace

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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

Luther, Martin

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

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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

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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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

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

Proverb, African

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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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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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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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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Balzac, Honore De

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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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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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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