Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Proverb, English

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

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

Collins, John Churton

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Welsh

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

Confucius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Sutro, Alfred

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

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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

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

Eliot, George

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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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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

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

Proverb, African

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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

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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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

Ellis, Havelock

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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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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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