Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Proverb, Yiddish

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

1.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

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

3.

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.

4.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

5.

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

6.

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

Billings, Josh

7.

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

Proverb, Welsh

8.

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

9.

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

Fielding, Henry

10.

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

11.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Ellis, Havelock

12.

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

13.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

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

15.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

16.

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

17.

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

Freehill, Maurice

19.

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

Proverb, Spanish

20.

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

Billings, Josh

21.

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

22.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

23.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

25.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

26.

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

27.

No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

28.

Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

29.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

30.

Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.

Proverb, Jewish

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb, Italian

33.

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

Sutro, Alfred

34.

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

Smith, Wes

35.

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

36.

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

Luther, Martin

37.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

39.

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

40.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, African

44.

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

Proverb, English

45.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De