Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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

Luther, Martin

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

Proverb, Welsh

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Proverb, African

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Mizner, Wilson

17.

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

Freehill, Maurice

18.

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

Collins, John Churton

19.

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

Proverb, Italian

20.

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

21.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

22.

Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

23.

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

Horace

24.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

27.

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

28.

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

Billings, Josh

29.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

30.

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

Brown, Gene

31.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Sutro, Alfred

35.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

36.

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

37.

The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. [Measure For Measure]

Shakespeare, William

38.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

39.

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

40.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

41.

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

Butler, Samuel

42.

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

43.

No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

44.

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

Proverb, English

45.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

46.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

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