Foolishness Quotes

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.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

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.

Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

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.

Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.

Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.

The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.