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Fools and foolishness

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

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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

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

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

Shadwell, Thomas

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Disraeli, Isaac

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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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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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A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moliere

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Confucius

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

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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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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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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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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

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

Lorimer, Geroge

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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

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

Grumet, Gerald W.

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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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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Proverb, English

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

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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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Fools are without number.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Cervantes, Miguel De