Best fool & half Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.”

“Uncle Sam is not often called a fool in business matters, yet he has sold millions of acres of timber land at two dollars and a half an acre on which a single tree was worth more than a hundred dollars. But this priceless land has been patented, and nothing can be done now about the crazy bargain.... a bad, black business from beginning to end.”

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“Ideas are somewhat like babies - they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative company executives do not say, "This is a damn-fool idea." Instead they ask, "What would be needed to make this embryonic, half-baked, foolish idea into something that makes sense, that is an opportunity for us?"”

Ideas Would Be Asks Opportunity Born Half Company Baby Fool Needed Promise Foolish Make Sense Fulfillment Damn Executives Innovative Immature

Author:Peter Drucker

“There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewell?divine as the vale of Tempe; you might have seen the gods there morning and eveningApollo and the sweet Muses of the Light? You enterprised a railroad?you blasted its rocks away? And, now, every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half-an-hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton.”

Light Might Hours Half Morning Rocks Divine Sweet Fool Valleys Muse Railroads

Author:John Ruskin

“Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.”

Knows Whole Half Know How Fool

Author:Hesiod

“Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever.”

Doe Seems Half Company Fool Wit Clever Deprived Cleverness

Author:Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

“This clay, so strong of heart, of sense so fine,Surely such clay is more than half divine--'Tis only fools speak evil of the clay,The very stars are made of clay like mine.”

Heart Made Evil Speak Strong Stars Half Mines Divine Fine Fool Clay

Book:Rubáiyát: English, French, German, Italian, and Dutch translations comparatively arranged in accordance with the text of Edward Fitzgerald's version, with further selections, notes, biographies, bibliographies, and other material

Source: Rubáiyát: English, French, German, Italian, and Dutch translations comparatively arranged in accordance with the text of Edward Fitzgerald's version, with further selections, notes, biographies, bibliographies, and other material

“What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.”