Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

- Proverb, English

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

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

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Luther, Martin

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Horace

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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

23.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, African

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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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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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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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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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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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

Eliot, George

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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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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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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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

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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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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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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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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

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

Proverb, Welsh

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The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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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