Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

- Boileau, Nicholas

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

1.

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

Billings, Josh

2.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

3.

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

Billings, Josh

4.

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

Luther, Martin

5.

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

Fielding, Henry

6.

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

7.

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

Freehill, Maurice

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

11.

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

12.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Butler, Samuel

13.

Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

14.

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

15.

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

Balzac, Honore De

16.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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

Eliot, George

20.

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

21.

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

22.

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

Proverb, Chinese

23.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

24.

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

25.

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

26.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

27.

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

28.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

29.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

30.

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

Shadwell, Thomas

31.

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

Ellis, Havelock

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

34.

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

Confucius

35.

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

Proverb, African

36.

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

Proverb, Welsh

37.

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

Billings, Josh

38.

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

39.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

41.

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

Smith, Wes

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Jewish

44.

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

Mizner, Wilson

45.

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.

46.

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

Horace

47.

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

Proverb, Italian

48.

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

Proverb, Spanish

49.

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.