Fools And Foolishness

(505 votes)   A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

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(342 votes)   The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.

Lord Alfred Tennyson
1809-1892, British Poet

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(325 votes)   You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better -- the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(292 votes)   He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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(287 votes)   He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(274 votes)   If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.

Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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(267 votes)   Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.

African Proverbs
Sayings of African Origin

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(240 votes)   Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(237 votes)   The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs of his neighbor.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(234 votes)   Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.

Jewish Proverbs
Sayings of Jewish Origin

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(234 votes)   It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt.

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(233 votes)   Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum.

John Updike
1932-, American Novelist, Critic

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(220 votes)   Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(219 votes)   Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(219 votes)   It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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