“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”
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“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.”
“A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.”
“Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.”
Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)
“Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.”
“Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.”
“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”
Source: The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
“You are foolish, but without fools there would be no wisdom.”
“Fools die happy. The happy die young. The young die foolish.”
“I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.”
“At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.”
Source: The Bible According to Mark Twain
“Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever”
“Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.”
Source: The Works of Ben Jonson
“Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.”
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five
Source: A Preface to Politics
“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.”
“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.”
“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.”
“The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.”
Source: Writings