Fools and Foolishness Quotes
73 quotations about Fools and Foolishness
Spinoza Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
No one but a fool is always right.
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.
A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
The fool is always beginning to live.
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.
Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.
The fool has to do at last what the wise did at first.
Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
Authors on Fools and Foolishness
African Proverb
Honore De Balzac
Al Bernstein
Josh Billings
Bioleau
William Blake
Nicholas Boileau
Gene Brown
Dale Carnegie
Miguel De Cervantes
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
Chinese Proverb
Marcus T. Cicero
John Churton Collins
Confucius
Isaac Disraeli
George Eliot
Havelock Ellis
English Proverb
Desiderius Erasmus