The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but
the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
?Benjamin Franklin
A fool boasts of those who fear
him; a wise man's pride
is those who respect him.
?Philip R. Breeze
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool
then to speak out and remove all doubt.
?Abraham Lincoln
Take all the fools out of this world and there
wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
?Josh Billings
Every fool finds a greater
one to admire them.
?Bioleau
A fool sees not the same tree
that a wise man sees.
?William Blake
Foolproof systems do not take into
account the ingenuity of fools.
?Gene Brown
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom
hears half its applause.
?George Eliot
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.
?Desiderius Erasmus
There are two fools in this world.
One is the millionaire who thinks that
by hoarding money he can somehow
accumulate real power, and the other
is the penniless reformer who thinks that
if only he can take the money
from one class and give it to another,
all the world's ills will be cured.
?Henry Ford
Who is more foolish,
the child afraid of the dark,
or the man afraid of the light?
?Maurice Freehill
A mother takes twenty years to make
a man of her boy, and another woman
makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
?Robert Frost
No one but a fool would measure their
satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
?Oliver Goldsmith
While intelligent people can often
simplify the complex, a fool is more
likely to complicate the simple.
?Gerald W. Grumet
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.
?Cynthia Heimel
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
The biggest fool in the world is he who
merely does his work supremely well,
without attending to appearance.
?Michael Korda
He who lives without folly
isn't so wise as he thinks.
?Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Colleges don't make fools,
they only develop them.
?George Lorimer
The fool is always beginning to live.
?Proverb
Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
?English Proverb
Don't approach a goat from
the front, a horse from the back,
or a fool from any side.
?Jewish Proverb
What a fool does in the end,
the wise do in the beginning.
?Spanish Proverb
A spoon does not know the taste of soup,
nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
?Welsh Proverb
They never open their mouths
without subtracting from the
sum of human knowledge.
?Thomas Brackett Reed
The haste of a fool is the slowest
thing in the world.
?Thomas Shadwell
Lord, what fools these mortals be.
?William Shakespeare
On Monday mornings I am dedicated to
the proposition that all men are created jerks.
?H. Allen Smith
Seek but provision of bread and wine,
fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and
nothing of God shall ever be thine.
?Wes Smith
That's the penalty we have to pay for
our acts of foolishness -- someone
else always suffers for them.
?Alfred Sutro
It is impossible to make anything fool-
proof because fools are so ingenious.
?Source Unknown
Wise people talk because they have
something to say; fools, because
they have to say something.
?Plato
