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 | "... only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write
foolish things." | |
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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| "A common mistake people make when trying to design something
completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete
fools." | |
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Douglas Noel Adams
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| "A fellow who is always declaring he"s no fool usually has his
suspicions." | |
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Wilson Mizner
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| "A fool and his money are soon partying." | |
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Steven Wright
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| "A fool and his money be soon at debate." | |
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Thomas Tusser
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| "A fool and his words are soon parted; a man of genius and his
money." | |
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William Shenstone
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| "A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his
ears." | |
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William Makepeace Thackery
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| "A fool sees not the same tree a wise man sees." | |
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William Blake
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| "A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool." | |
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Jean Baptiste Moliare
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| "A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one." | |
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Jean Baptiste Moliére
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| "A man learns to skate by staggering about making a fool of himself;
indeed, he progresses in all things by making a fool of himself." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "A man remains wise as long as he seeks wisdom. The minute he thinks
he has found it, he becomes a fool." | |
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Proverb
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| "Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "Better a witty fool than a foolish wit." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "Even a fool when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that
shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding." | |
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The Bible
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| "Every man is a fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom
consists of not exceeding the limit." | |
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Elbert Hubbard
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| "Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the
greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer." | |
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Charles Caleb Colton
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| "Foolproof systems don"t take into account the ingenuity of
fools." | |
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Gene Brown
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| "Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their
silence." | |
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William Henry
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| "Fools may our scorn, not envy raise, for envy is a kind of
praise." | |
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John Gay
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| "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread." | |
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Alexander Pope
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| "He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who
never asks a question remains a fool forever." | |
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Tom J. Connelly
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| "He who hesitates is a damned fool." | |
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Mae West
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| "He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool." | |
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Francois Voltaire
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| "I am always afraid of a fool; one cannot be sure he is not a
knave." | |
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William Hazlitt
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| "I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so In whining
poetry." | |
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John Donne
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| "If a man is a fool, you don"t train him out of being a fool by
sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten
times more dangerous." | |
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Desmond Bagley
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| "If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish
thing." | |
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Anatole France
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| "INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn
for their mutual destruction." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish." | |
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Aeschylus
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| "New Year"s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this
does not encourage them to take up more of my time." | |
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James Agate
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| "Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the
rest of us are in great danger of contagion." | |
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Thornton Niven Wilder
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| "Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; but
it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool." | |
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Rudyard Kipling
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| "Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish." | |
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Euripides
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| "The best way to convince a fool he is wrong is to let him have his
way." | |
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Josh Billings
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| "The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which
he didn"t commit when he had the opportunity." | |
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Helen Rowland
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| "The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that
testified surprise." | |
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John Dryden
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| "The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise man grows
it under his feet." | |
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James Oppenheim
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| "The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable
fools." | |
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Larry Niven
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| "The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right
sometimes." | |
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Sir Winston Churchill
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| "The most trying fools are the bright ones." | |
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François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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| "The trouble isn"t that there are too many fools, but that the
lightning isn"t distributed right." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is
to fill the world with fools." | |
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Herbert Spencer
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| "There are many more fools in the world than there are knaves,
otherwise the knaves could not exist." | |
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Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
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| "There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man." | |
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Aristotle
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| "There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the
wise." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "Those who wish to appear wise among fools among the wise seem
foolish." | |
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Marcus Fabius Quintilian
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| "Those who wish to appear wise among fools, Among the wise seem
foolish." | |
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Quintilian
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| "To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools." | |
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Jean de La Bruyére
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| "What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter
he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy." | |
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Marie Corelli
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| "What the fool does in the end, the wise man does in the
beginning." | |
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Unknown
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| "Who"s more foolish? The fool, or the one who follows him?" | |
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Ben Kenobi
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| "Wise men don?t need advice. Fools won?t take it." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because
they have to say something." | |
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Plato
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| "You are not a fool just because you have done something foolish ?
only if the folly of it escapes you." | |
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Jim Fiebig
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| "Young men think old men are fools; But old men know young men are
fools." | |
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George Chapman
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