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Fools and foolishness

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

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

Boileau, Nicholas

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

Lorimer, Geroge

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

Proverb, English

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

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

Smith, Wes

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

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

10.

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

Proverb, African

11.

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

12.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

13.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

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

Mizner, Wilson

18.

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

Luther, Martin

19.

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

Confucius

20.

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

Collins, John Churton

21.

Its quite true there's a fool born every minute. It's also quite true they don't die that fast.

22.

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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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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Shadwell, Thomas

27.

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

Fielding, Henry

28.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

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

30.

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 fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

32.

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

Sutro, Alfred

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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

34.

No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

35.

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

36.

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

40.

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

Ellis, Havelock

41.

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

Freehill, Maurice

42.

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

43.

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

Billings, Josh

44.

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

Billings, Josh

45.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

46.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

47.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Balzac, Honore De

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