Fools And Foolishness Quotes

• I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

  Edith Sitwell

  Patience, Stupid, Ignorance

  "The Last Years of a Rebel: A Memoir of Edith Sitwell". Book by Elizabeth Salter, 1967.

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• No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz

  Life, Wisdom, Men

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• If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

  Anatole France

  Funny, Wisdom, Stupid

  "Listening and Speaking : A Guide to Effective Oral Communication". Book by Ralph G. Nichols and Thomas R. Lewis, 1954.

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• Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

  Frank Dane

  Funny, Stupid People, Your Side

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• Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Humor, Fools Day

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• The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Inspiration, Humor

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic”, p.1053, Penguin

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• A fool and his money are soon partying.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Money, Party

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• Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Bullying, Funny Inspirational

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• A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

  Bruce Lee

  Wise, Wisdom, Stupid

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.98, Tuttle Publishing

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  Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

  Euripides

  Relationship, Stupid, Communication

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.38, University of Chicago Press

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• Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.

  Bertrand Russell

  Race, Fool, Folly

  "Basic writings, 1903-1959".

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  Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

  Alexander Pope

  Wisdom, Fear, Angel

  An Essay on Criticism l. 625 (1711)

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• When in doubt, make a fool of yourself.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Fools Day, Doubt, April Fools

  Cynthia Heimel (1988). “But Enough about You”, Fireside

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• A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

  Robert Frost

  Mothers Day, Mom, Women

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• Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

  Solomon

  Knowledge, Fool, Wise Counsel

  Proverbs 1:7, King James Version,

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• A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

  Thomas Tusser

  Money, Italian, Taxation

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• Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Foolish Man, Good Sense

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 69, 1799.

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• The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Men, Foolish Man

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• A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

  William Blake

  Wise, Photography, Teaching

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'Proverbs of Hell'

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• Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

  Bertrand Russell

  Foolish Man, Wisest Man, Thought Provoking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humor, Science

  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ch. 26 (1884)

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• People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

  Alice Walker

  People, Wish, Literature

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• A fool and his money are soon elected.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Money

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• A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.

  Warren Buffett

  Money, Italian, Taxes Funny

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