“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”
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Fools And Foolishness Quotes
“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)
“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.”
“Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.”
“The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.”
“Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.”
“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
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
“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.”
“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
“First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.”
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.”
“I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.”
“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
“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
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.”
“He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.”