Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Luther, Martin

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Luther, Martin

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Proverb, African

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

Horace

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

Boileau, Nicholas

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Ellis, Havelock

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Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.

Brown, Gene

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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

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Billings, Josh

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

Billings, Josh

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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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

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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

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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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

Confucius

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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

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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Smith, Wes

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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

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

Proverb, English

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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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.

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

Eliot, George

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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

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

Freehill, Maurice

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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.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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

Butler, Samuel