Here are some proverbs and quotes about fools.
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Never has a man more need of his intelligence than when a fool asks him a question.
One must be a little foolish, if one does not want to be even more stupid.
Michel de MontaignePenny wise, pound foolish.
This refers to someone who is careful about spending small amounts of money, but not careful about spending large amounts.People don't think and thus get fooled by priests and Trumpalikes.
MinkukelReligion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
Richard DawkinsShowing off is the fool's idea of glory.
Bruce LeeSix hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.
So part of our challenge is reconciling these two seemingly inreconcilable truths -- that war is sometimes necessary, and war at some level is an expression of human folly.
Barack ObamaSometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth GaskellSource: Wives and Daughters
Statler: Hey old fool, you slept through the show!
Waldorf: Who's a fool, you watched it!
(unknown author)Waldorf: Who's a fool, you watched it!
Source: The Muppet Show
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane AustenTalk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
EuripidesThe best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
Josh BillingsThe first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard P. FeynmanThe fool needs company, the wise solitude.
(unknown author)The foolish slogans of a rich man often pass for words of wisdom by the fools around him.
The idea of marrying a doll or a fool was always abhorrent to me. I know that a pretty doll, a fair fool, might do well enough for the honeymoon; but when passion cooled, how dreadful to find a lump of wax and wood laid in my bossom, a half-idiot clasped in my arms, and to remember that I had made of this my equal - nay, my idol - to know that I must pass the rest of my dreary life with a creature incapable of understanding what I said, of appreciating what I thought, or of sympathising with what I felt!
Charlotte BrontëSource: The Professor
Quoted: William Crimsworth
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
François de La RochefoucauldThe learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
Benjamin FranklinThe silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a clever woman to manage a fool.
Rudyard KiplingThe ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert SpencerEnglish Philosopher (1820-1903)
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
BibleThere are more fools in the world than there are people.
Heinrich HeineThere is no fool like an old fool.
To keep your own secrets is wisdom; but to expect others to keep them is folly.
William Scott DowneyTrue, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don't have to be crazy in the medically certifiable sense in order to do massively crazy things.
Daniel DennettWe all have something of a doctor, a poet and a fool.
We start as fools and become wise through experience.
What one fool can do, another can.
(unknown author)When a finger is pointing at the moon, the fool looks at the finger.
When a fool is told a proverb, its meaning has to be explained to him.
Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.
Thomas GrayWise men create proverbs and fools repeat them.
Samuel PalmerWise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
PlatoWise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
Michel de MontaigneWise people can’t answer the most foolish questions.
Without fools the rest of us could not succeed.
Mark TwainWomen sometimes make fools of men, but most guys are the do-it-yourself type
(unknown author)You can say any fool thing to a dog and the dog will just give you this look that says, "My GOSH, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!"
Dave Barry