Here are some proverbs and quotes about fools.
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"Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and passed into a proverb.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 12 - Inside Information
Quoted: Bilbo
A cigarette is a pipe with a fire at one end and a fool at the other.(unknown author)
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.Douglas Adams
A fool and his money are soon parted.A foolish person usually spends money without thinking.
A fool at forty is a fool forever.If a person hasn't matured by the age of 40, they never will.
A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control of his mind.Ali
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Self-Reliance
A friend's frown is better than a fool's smile.
A promise is a comfort for a fool.
A wise man remembers his friends at all times; a fool, only when he has need of them.
Any fool can get into a fight, but a wise man knows how to stay out of them.Ken Follett
Source: The Pillars of the Earth
As dead flies give perfume a bad smell, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.Bible
Source: Ecclesiastes 10:1
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.François de La Rochefoucauld
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.William Shakespeare
Better flatter a fool than fight him.Don't argue with stupid people.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.Abraham Lincoln
By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed.
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.George Bernard Shaw
Children and fools tell the truth.
Every time someone comes up with a foolproof solution, along comes a more-talented fool(unknown author)
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.Charlie Chaplin
Folly is an unruly woman; she is simple and knows nothing.Bible
Source: Proverbs 9:13
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.Learn from your own mistakes.
Fools are wise until they speak.Randle Cotgrave
Fools never get grey hair.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Fools speak while the wise listen
For all their foolishness, modern societies have been getting smarter, and all things being equal, a smarter world is a less violent world.Steven Pinker
Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.Frank Dane
He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.
He is a fool who praises the fruit of a tree and forgets its roots.
He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.Groucho Marx
He that has no fools, knaves nor beggars in his family, was begot by a flash of lightning.Thomas Fuller
He that is born a fool is never cured.
He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.F.M. Knowles
He who cannot pick up an ant, and wants to pick up an elephant will some day see his folly.
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.William Blake
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.Epictetus
Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.Minna Thomas Antrim
Source: Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions
In shallow holes moles make fools of dragons.
In shallow waters, shrimps make fools of dragons.
It is foolish to show glowworms by candle light.
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.Anne Brontë
Source: Agnes Grey
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.William Hazlitt
It is the fool whose own tomatoes are sold to him.
It takes great wisdom to play the fool.
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.Mark Twain
Neither give cherries to pigs nor advice to fools.
Never has a man more need of his intelligence than when a fool asks him a question.
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