Foolishness Quotes
He who wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue; then others can imitate and, at the same time, rise above the one being imitated - something which people love.
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.
A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.
Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.
The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.
In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.
Somebody does somethin' stupid, that's human. They don't stop when they see it's wrong, that's a fool.
A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.
Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.
Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.
There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.
I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.
Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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