F Quotes
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“Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself.”
“Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina”
“Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.”
“Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.”
“Fools lie, clever men stick to the truth.”
Source: The Necromancer
“Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Fools make news, and wise men carry it.”
Source: The Game Of Kings: The Lymond Chronicles Book One
“Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools.”
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“Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.”
Source: A Modern Utopia
“Fools may have the greatest repository of knowledge but will never attain Wisdom.”
“Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:
“Fools measure actions, after they are done, by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. The former look to the end, to judge of the act. Let me look to the act, and leave the end with God.”
“Fools multiply when wise men are silent.”
“Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“Fools never learn from their mistakes; Smart people learn from their mistakes; Wise people learn from other people's mistakes.”
“Fools often mistake disrespect for showmanship, thinking that arrogance and bluster will earn them admiration. In truth, they only reveal their lack of class and intelligence!”
“Fools only crib about what they do not have. They do not count their blessings.”
“Fools rarely say what they think, and suffer silently. The wise say what they think, and may make some suffer momentarily.”
“Fools refuse to truly believe that a thing can be both delicious or pleasurable … and harmful.”
“Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
“Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.”
“Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.”
“Fools rush in, where wise men never go,
But wise men never fall in love, so how are they to know?”
“Fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.” Their deeds are loathsome and corrupt; not one does what is right. The Lord looks down from heaven upon the human race, to see if even one is wise, if even one seeks God. All have gone astray; all alike are perverse. Not one does what is right, not even one.
Psalm 14:1-3”
Source: Psalms Proverbs Ecclesiastes Song of Solomon
“Fools seek identity in ancestry, the wise build their identity with sweat and blood.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“Fools take criticism and dish it back. The wise take it and turn it to their advantage.”
“Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.”
Source: Aesop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources
“Fools talk, cowards silence , wise men listen”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation”
Source: Letters
“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.”
Source: Doctor Faustus
“Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.”
“Fools toast each other's wealth, whereas sages toast each other's health.”
Source: Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
“Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.”
“Fools wait for a lucky day, but everyday is a lucky day for an industrious man.”
“Fools waste your energy, so when you see a fool, it's wise to change your path as if you've seen a wild bear in the forest!”
“Fools who don't respect the past are doomed to repeat it.”
“Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily - weak people, in other words.”
“Fools who won't see the truth are deadly.”
Source: Wizard's First Rule
“Fools will try to educate a master by telling him things he already knows.”
“Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.”
“Fools work while the wise play.”
“Fools write books about madness being an elevated mental state or an alternative form of creativity. It's not, it's anguish.”
Source: Breakdown
“Fools you are who say you like to learn from your mistakes. I prefer to learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid the cost of my own.”
“Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of my own.”
“Fools! You think of "god" as a sentient being. God is the word used to represent a force. This force created nothing, it just helps things along. It does not answer prayers, although it may make you think of a way to solve a problem. It has the power to influence you, but not decide for you.”
“Fools!" said the man, stamping his foot with rage. "That is the sort of talk that brought me here, and I'd better have been drowned or never born. Do you hear what I say? This is where dreams — dreams, do you understand — come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.”
Source: The voyage of the Dawn Treader
“Fools, art is a heavy task, more heavy than gold crowns; it's far more difficult to match firm words than armies, they're disciplined troops, unconquered, to be placed in rhythm, the mind's most mighty foe, and not disperse in air. I'd give, believe me, a whole land for one good song, for I know well that only words, that words alone, like the high mountains, have no fear of age or death.”
Source: the Odyssey a Modern Sequel
“Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.”