Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old fools quotes, fools sayings, and fools proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.Winston S. Churchill
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The world is full of fools, and he who would not see it should live alone and smash his mirror.Claude Le Petit
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I don't argue with fools; I educate.Shannon L. Alder
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Fools may have the greatest repository of knowledge but will never attain wisdom.Caleb Ricketts
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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.Plato
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.Alexander Pope
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There are more fools than wise men, and even in the wise man himself there is more folly than wisdom.CHAMFORT
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The greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.Charles Caleb Colton
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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.Edward Young
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With fools forbear to argue--better strive to wake the dead.Bhartrhari
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Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.African Proverb
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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.English Proverb
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The fool is always beginning to live.Proverb
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There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.Josh Billings
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Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.Josh Billings
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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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Arguing with a fool proves there are two.Doris M. Smith
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.Cicero
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Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.Romans
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There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.Aristotle
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The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.George R.R. Martin
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Too many men are afraid of being fools.Henry Ford
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There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.Henry Ford
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Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.William Shakespeare
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A foolish man is always doing,Yet much remains to be done.Lao Tzu
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Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.Oscar Hammerstein
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Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.Dean Koontz
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Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.H. G. Bohn
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.Cato the Elder
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Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.Benjamin Franklin
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.Herbert Spencer
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Hurry is the weakness of fools.Baltasar GraciĂ n
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Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.Thomas H. Huxley
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No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.Ben Jonson
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Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.Ovid
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Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do.French Proverb
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He who laughs at everything is as big a fool as he who weeps at everything.Baltasar Gracian
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The fool has set in his heart that he can get more money through the tiring of his muscle and the starvation of his brain—but he can’t.William D. Hoard
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He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.James Gibbons Huneker
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There are two kinds of fools. One says, 'This is old, therefore it is good.' The other says, 'This is new, therefore it is better.'William Ralph Inge
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Sometimes a fool has talent, but never judgment.Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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An erudite fool is a greater fool than an ignorant fool.Moliere
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An erudite fool is a greater fool than an ignorant fool.Moliere
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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.Marcus Porcius Cato
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When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.William Shakespeare
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Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed.Mark Twain
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A fool is his own informer.Yiddish Proverb
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By their own follies they perished, the fools.Homer
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.Gaius Petronius
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He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.Plutarch
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Thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.William Shakespeare
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Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.William Shakespeare
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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.William Shakespeare
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God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are tools, let them use their talents.William Shakespeare
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I do not attack fools, but foolishness.Jacques du Laurens
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Some are bewilder'd in the maze of schools, / And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.Alexander Pope
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Greatest fools are oft most satisfied.Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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A fool there was and he made his prayer / (Even as you and I!) / To a rag and a bone and hank of hair / (We called her the woman who did not care) / But the fool he called her his lady fair— / (Even as you and I!) Rudyard Kipling
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.Baltasar Gracian
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Fools, through false shame, conceal their open wounds.Horace
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A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.Thomas Fuller
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.William Blake
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And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.Alfred North Whitehead
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The learned is happy, nature to explore, the fool Is happy, that he knows no more.Alexander Pope
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A fool and his money are soon parted.George Buchanan
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Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.Luc de Clapiers Marquis de Vauvenargues
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.Charles Montesquieu
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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.Baltasar Gracian
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. Elbert Hubbard
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A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.Louis L'Amour
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For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.Robert Louis Stevenson
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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.Chinese Proverb
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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.Douglas Adams
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The way of a fool is right in his own eyes.Bible (Proverbs 12:15)
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If a fool could keep silent he would not be a fool.Swedish Proverb
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.Welsh Proverb
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Learned fools are the greatest fools.German Proverb
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No one is a fool always, everyone sometimes.Roman Proverb
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One fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.French Proverb
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Only a fool leans upon his own misunderstanding. Jamaican Proverb
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The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned; but still 'tis nonsense.Benjamin Franklin
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A fool at forty is a fool indeed.Edward Young
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Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. / Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.Bible (Proverbs 26:4)
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As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.Bible (Proverbs 26:11)
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The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, / All centuries but this, and every country but his own.W.S. Gilbert
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Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, / And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.Oliver Goldsmith
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The method by which the fool arrives at his folly was as dear to him as the ultimate wisdom of the wise. Oscar Wilde
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Remember that the fool in the eyes of the gods and the fool in the eyes of man are very different.Oscar Wilde
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The real fool, such as the gods mock or mar, is he who does not know himself. Oscar Wilde
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Ah! I prefer a gentlemanly fool any day. There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.Oscar Wilde
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Many talk like philosophers, and live like fools.H. G. Bohn
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A fool is like other men as long as he is silent.Jacob Cats
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A fool . . . says little, but that little said owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead.William Cowper
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[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
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Yet fools and children sometimes tell in play / Some, wise in show, more fools indeed than they.Michael Drayton
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O Fool, try to carry thyself upon thy own shoulders! / O beggar, to come beg at thy own door! Rabindranath Tagore
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Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon, / If you listen to popular rumour; / From morning to night he's so joyous and bright, / And he bubbles with wit and good humour!William Schwenck Gilbert
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Come along, Fool / A direct hit of the senses you are disconnected / It's not that it's bad, it's not that it's death / It's just on the tip of your tongue, and you're so silentChan Marshall
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He is no fool / If he would choose / To give the thing he cannot keep / To buy what he can never loseTwila Paris
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Who is more a fool: the fool, or he who follows the fool? Lexor
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Everybody is somebody's fool. Michael O'Hara
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Fool me once. Fool me twice. Fool me chicken soup with rice.Todd Chavez
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Fool me once, shame on you, but teach a man to fool me, and I'll be fooled for the rest of my life. Virgil van Cleef
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Maybe we're all fools and none of it matters. Jack Crabb
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Oh sir, we're all fools for most of our lives. It's unavoidable. Jean Valjean
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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we still had a few fools left. Jack Worthing