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72 quotes (Page 3 of 3 pages)Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
Fools and Foolishness
African Proverb
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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Fools and Foolishness
Elizabeth Gaskell
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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Fools and Foolishness
Al Bernstein
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Spinoza Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Fools and Foolishness
Benjamin Franklin
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Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
Fools and Foolishness
Josh Billings
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.
Fools and Foolishness
Josh Billings
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Fools and Foolishness
Oliver Goldsmith
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The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
Fools and Foolishness
William Shakespeare
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The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.
Fools and Foolishness
Lord Alfred Tennyson
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The fool has to do at last what the wise did at first.
Fools and Foolishness
Italian Proverb
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The fool is always beginning to live.
Fools and Foolishness
Proverb
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The fool needs company, the wise solitude.
Fools and Foolishness
Ruckett
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The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
Fools and Foolishness
Sir Richard Steele
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The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
Fools and Foolishness
Thomas Shadwell
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
Fools and Foolishness
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Fools and Foolishness
Herbert Spencer
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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
Fools and Foolishness
Isaac Disraeli
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There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t.
Fools and Foolishness
Josh Billings
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They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
Fools and Foolishness
Thomas Brackett Reed
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What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.
Fools and Foolishness
Spanish Proverb
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Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?
Fools and Foolishness
Maurice Freehill
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Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.
Fools and Foolishness
Martin Luther
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun