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Fool quotes (56) Those who wish to appear wise among fools Among the wise seem foolish. Quintilian Category: Fool The most trying fools are the bright ones. François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Category: Fool Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. Charles Caleb Colton Category: Fool A fellow who is always declaring hes no fool usually has his suspicions. Wilson Mizner Category: Fool Every man is a fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit. Elbert Hubbard Category: Fool It is a profitable thing if one is wise to seem foolish. Aeschylus Category: Fool He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever. Tom J. Connelly Category: Fool A man remains wise as long as he seeks wisdom. The minute he thinks he has found it he becomes a fool. Proverb Category: Fool Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it. Benjamin Franklin Category: Fool Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish. Albert Einstein Category: Fool What the fool does in the end the wise man does in the beginning. Unknown Category: Fool Those who wish to appear wise among fools among the wise seem foolish. Marcus Fabius Quintilian Category: Fool A fool and his money be soon at debate. Thomas Tusser Category: Fool If a man is a fool you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool ten times more dangerous. Desmond Bagley Category: Fool A fool and his words are soon parted; a man of genius and his money. William Shenstone Category: Fool ... only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Category: Fool A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears. William Makepeace Thackery Category: Fool INTIMACY n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Fool There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise. Francis Bacon Category: Fool Take my word for it the silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. Rudyard Kipling Category: Fool There are many more fools in the world than there are knaves otherwise the knaves could not exist. Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton Category: Fool The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. Sir Winston Churchill Category: Fool Fools may our scorn not envy raise for envy is a kind of praise. John Gay Category: Fool The best way to convince a fool he is wrong is to let him have his way. Josh Billings Category: Fool The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise man grows it under his feet. James Oppenheim Category: Fool To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools. Jean de La Bruyere Category: Fool A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one. Jean Baptiste Moliere Category: Fool Even a fool when he holdeth his peace is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. The Bible Category: Fool What a fool cannot learn he laughs at thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy. Marie Corelli Category: Fool You are not a fool just because you have done something foolish only if the folly of it escapes you. Jim Fiebig Category: Fool A fool sees not the same tree a wise man sees. William Blake Category: Fool A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool. Jean Baptiste Moliare Category: Fool For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Alexander Pope Category: Fool Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. Euripides Category: Fool Young men think old men are fools; But old men know young men are fools. George Chapman Category: Fool I am always afraid of a fool; one cannot be sure he is not a knave. William Hazlitt Category: Fool The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didnt commit when he had the opportunity. Helen Rowland Category: Fool A fool and his money are soon partying. Steven Wright Category: Fool The trouble isnt that there are too many fools but that the lightning isnt distributed right. Mark Twain Category: Fool Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. Plato Category: Fool The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth that testified surprise. John Dryden Category: Fool Fools live to regret their words wise men to regret their silence. William Henry Category: Fool There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man. Aristotle Category: Fool The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. Herbert Spencer Category: Fool If fifty million people say a foolish thing it is still a foolish thing. Anatole France Category: Fool A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. Douglas Noel Adams Category: Fool Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools. Gene Brown Category: Fool Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. Thornton Niven Wilder Category: Fool A man learns to skate by staggering about making a fool of himself; indeed he progresses in all things by making a fool of himself. George Bernard Shaw Category: Fool Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. William Shakespeare Category: Fool He who thinks himself wise O heavens! is a great fool. Francois Voltaire Category: Fool The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools. Larry Niven Category: Fool New Years Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. James Agate Category: Fool He who hesitates is a damned fool. Mae West Category: Fool I am two fools I know For loving and for saying so In whining poetry. John Donne Category: Fool Whos more foolish? The fool or the one who follows him? Ben Kenobi Category: Fool |
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