Quotes about fools and foolishness

"No one but a fool is always right."

Hare, David on fools and foolishness
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"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 on fools and foolishness   

"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 on fools and foolishness   

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

Horace on fools and foolishness
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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 on fools and foolishness   

"He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on fools and foolishness
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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. on fools and foolishness
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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. on fools and foolishness   

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

Lincoln, Abraham on fools and foolishness
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"Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them."

Lorimer, Geroge on fools and foolishness   

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

Luther, Martin on fools and foolishness
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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 on fools and foolishness   

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

Mizner, Wilson on fools and foolishness   

"A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one."

Moliere on fools and foolishness
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"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on fools and foolishness
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"Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread."

Pope, Alexander on fools and foolishness   

"A fool and his money are soon parted."

Proverb on fools and foolishness   

"The fool is always beginning to live."

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

Proverb, African on fools and foolishness
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"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."

Proverb, Chinese on fools and foolishness
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"If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me."

Proverb, Chinese on fools and foolishness
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"Fools build houses, and wise men buy them."

Proverb, English on fools and foolishness   

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

Proverb, English on fools and foolishness
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"The fool has to do at last what the wise did at first."

Proverb, Italian on fools and foolishness   

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

Proverb, Jewish on fools and foolishness
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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 on fools and foolishness   

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

Proverb, Spanish on fools and foolishness   

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

Proverb, Welsh on fools and foolishness   

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

Proverb, Yiddish on fools and foolishness   

"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge."

Reed, Thomas Brackett on fools and foolishness   

"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 on fools and foolishness   

"The fool needs company, the wise solitude."

Ruckett on fools and foolishness
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"Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived."

Russell, Bertrand on fools and foolishness   

"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."

Russell, Bertrand on fools and foolishness
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"The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on fools and foolishness   

"A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself."

Seneca on fools and foolishness   

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

Shadwell, Thomas on fools and foolishness   

"Lord, what fools these mortals be."

Shakespeare, William on fools and foolishness
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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 on fools and foolishness
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"The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits."

Shakespeare, William on fools and foolishness
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