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Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it. - Benjamin Franklin The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense. - Benjamin Franklin Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that have not wit enough to be honest. - Benjamin Franklin Fools, to talking ever prose Are sure to make their follies known. - John Gay Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Were I to be angry at men being fools, I could here find ample room for declamation; but, alas! I have been a fool myself; and why should I be angry with them for being something so natural to every child of humanity? - Oliver Goldsmith The greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all others are. - Baltasar Gracian (used pseudonym Lorenzo Gracian) What matter though the scorn of fools be given If the path follow'd lead us on to heaven! - Mrs. Sarah Josepha (Buell) Hale People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton (used pseudonym Sam Slick) Surely he is not a fool that hath unwise thoughts, but he that utters them. - Joseph Hall I have met, in my time, many an old fool; but this one tops them all. - Hannibal, said after the end of the Second Punic War None but a fool is always right. - Augustus William Hare He must be a thorough fool who can learn nothing from his own folly. - A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well. - William Hazlitt (1) Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to the last moment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirely change his opinion. - Sir Arthur Helps None is a fool always, everyone sometimes. - George Herbert After the event, even a fool is wise. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Even the fool is wise after the event. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") If the fools do not control the world, it isn't because they are not in the majority. - Edgar Watson Howe The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white. - Kabir A fool cannot look, nor stand, nor walk like a man of sense. - Jean de la Bruyere As riches and favor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity. - Jean de la Bruyere The compliments of the season to my worthy masters, and a merry first of April to us all. We have all a speck of the motley. - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia) A man of wit would often be much embarrassed without the company of fools. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Fortune makes folly her peculiar care.-Churchill. Old fools are more foolish than young ones. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Displaying page 2 of 4 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4
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