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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
WILLIAM BLAKE, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
ALEXANDER POPE, An Essay on Criticism
Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Poor Richard's Almanac
- Yet with great toil all that I can attain
- By long experience, and in learned schools,
- Is for to know my knowledge is but vain,
- And those that think them wise, are greatest fools.
SIR WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING, The Tragedy of Croesus
Who's the more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him?
OBI-WAN KENOBI, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
O! I am Fortune's fool.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
Children and fools speak true.
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?
HENRIK IBSEN, An Enemy of the People
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
URSULA K. LE GUIN, Harper's magazine, Aug. 1990
The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control.
- Fashion! -- a word which knaves and fools may use,
- Their knavery and folly to excuse.
CHARLES CHURCHILL, The Rosciad
Tho' marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
WILLIAM CONGREVE, The Double Dealer
Silence is the virtue of fools.
FRANCIS BACON, De Augmentis Scientiarum
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
ANATOLE FRANCE, Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations
There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
WILLIAM GOLDING, Nobel Lecture, Dec. 7, 1983
If at first you don’t succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you.
DEAN KOONTZ, Fear Nothing
The difference between a puppy and a fool is this--the one is born blind and continues so for nine days only, while the other remains with his eyes shut all his life.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY, Proverbs
Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
- Fools may our scorn, not envy raise,
- For envy is a kind of praise.
JOHN GAY, Fables
The greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Eleanor Parke Custis, Jan. 16, 1795
Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.
You can't argue with all of the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI, Eragon
As a fish out of his native element, so is the fool in the society of the wise.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY, Proverbs
With fools forbear to argue--better strive to wake the dead.
There may be no fool like an old fool, but our observation has been that the young fool runs him a pretty close second.
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, Poems and Paragraphs
Too many men are afraid of being fools.
HENRY FORD, "In Bondage to a Reputation," Ford Ideals
- Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit;
- And some errors never would have thriven, had it not been for learned refutation.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, Proverbial Philosophy
The difference between a wise and foolish man is this--the former sees much, thinks much, and speaks little; but the latter speaks more than he either sees or thinks.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY, Proverbs
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