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  • Mae West said:

    He who hesitates is a damned fool.

  • Aristotle said:

    There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

  • There are many more fools in the world than there are knaves otherwise the knaves could not exist.

  • Young men think old men are fools; But old men know young men are fools.

  • The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

  • Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

  • If fifty million people say a foolish thing it is still a foolish thing.

  • Wise men don?t need advice. Fools won?t take it.

  • John Gay said:

    Fools may our scorn not envy raise for envy is a kind of praise.

  • I am always afraid of a fool; one cannot be sure he is not a knave.

  • Take my word for it the silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

  • The most trying fools are the bright ones.

  • A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.

  • The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise man grows it under his feet.

  • For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

  • Quintilian said:

    Those who wish to appear wise among fools Among the wise seem foolish.

  • The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didnt commit when he had the opportunity.

  • Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

  • A fool and his words are soon parted; a man of genius and his money.

  • The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

  • A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

  • A fool and his money be soon at debate.

  • If a man is a fool you dont train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool ten times more dangerous.

  • Euripides said:

    Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

  • A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

  • Aeschylus said:

    It is a profitable thing if one is wise to seem foolish.

  • James Agate said:

    New Years Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

  • There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

  • INTIMACY n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.

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

  • A fool sees not the same tree a wise man sees.

  • Gene Brown said:

    Foolproof systems dont take into account the ingenuity of fools.

  • … only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

  • He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.

  • What a fool cannot learn he laughs at thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

  • John Donne said:

    I am two fools I know For loving and for saying so In whining poetry.

  • John Dryden said:

    The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth that testified surprise.

  • Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish.

  • Jim Fiebig said:

    You are not a fool just because you have done something foolish only if the folly of it escapes you.

  • Fools live to regret their words wise men to regret their silence.

  • Every man is a fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.

  • Ben Kenobi said:

    Whos more foolish? The fool or the one who follows him?

  • To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools.

  • A fellow who is always declaring hes no fool usually has his suspicions.

  • A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

  • Larry Niven said:

    The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

  • Plato said:

    Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

  • Those who wish to appear wise among fools among the wise seem foolish.

  • A man learns to skate by staggering about making a fool of himself; indeed he progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

  • Mark Twain said:

    The trouble isnt that there are too many fools but that the lightning isnt distributed right.

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