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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

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

Shakespeare, William

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

No one but a fool is always right.

Hare, David

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Fielding, Henry

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

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Proverb, African

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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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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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The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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 often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

Collins, John Churton

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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Bernstein, Al

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Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Confucius

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The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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

Horace

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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Brown, Gene

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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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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.

49.

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

Lorimer, Geroge