Motivational Quotes

Fools and foolishness

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

- Smith, Wes

Fools and foolishness Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Fools and foolishness

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

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

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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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

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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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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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

Confucius

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The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Collins, John Churton

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

24.

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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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.

28.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Proverb, English

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

Horace

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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Bernstein, Al

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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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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, African

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

Freehill, Maurice

44.

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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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 wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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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.