“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.”
“It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.”
Source: The Absolute Sandman
“Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied.”
“Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.”
Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)
“Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.”
“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”
Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects
“The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.”
“One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.”
“The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.”
“He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.”
Source: The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments
“If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.”
Source: The Oedipus Trilogy: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
“The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.”
“Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.”
“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
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit
“I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.”
“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”
“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.”
“The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.”
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic