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Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.

Socrates

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

Michel de Montaigne

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it.

Edgar Allan Poe

When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools.

William Shakespeare

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

William Shakespeare

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

William Shakespeare

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

Herbert Spencer

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.

Benjamin Franklin

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Alfred North Whitehead

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.

Dale Carnegie

A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools.

Thucydides

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

Those who realize their folly are not true fools.

Chuang Tzu

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Albert Einstein

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Alexander Pope

I really can't come to your party Mrs. Parker, I can't bear fools.' That's strange; your mother could.

Dorothy Parker

We'd be fools not to worry about large companies coming into our space.

Chris Dibona

Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side.

Claude Mcdonald

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

Juvenal

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.

Robert Benchley

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

Heinrich Heine

ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.

Ambrose Bierce

As long as there are fools and rascals, there will be religions.

Voltaire

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

Doug Larson

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Voltaire

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Isaac Disraeli

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

Patti Smith

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

Ted Koppel

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

Bruce Lee

The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public?

Thomas Chalmers

The characters make fools of themselves repeatedly, and show how crazy we all act when we try to pursue eternal youth.

Kent Thompson

Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools.

Gene Brown

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.

Japanese Proverb

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato the Elder

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

John Tillotson

Where the holy take men for fools, the mad take the world.

R. Scott Bakker

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

Frank Dane

I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.

Jack Black

I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.

James Robinson

Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools.

Charles Simmons

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

We had to win or we would have headed home looking like fools.

Sean Williams

It's for a great cause, making fools of ourselves. Anything for the kids.

Jan Adams

Next week we will be millionaires (Only Fools and Horses).

David Jason

Tell me this is April Fool's Day.

Bob Boone

Fools make a mock at sin.

Bible

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

Diane Ackerman

A barber learns to shave by shaving fools.

Romanian Proverb

It's a fool's errand to expect the oil companies to invest in any significant way.

George Sterzinger

By their own follies they perished, the fools.

Homer

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

Neil Gaiman

If there were no fools, how would we recognize the wise.

Norwegian Proverb

But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

Basil Bunting

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Mark Twain

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

Mark Twain

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

Sir Richard Steele

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

Douglas Bader

Who can explain it? Who can tell you why? Fools give you reasons; Wise men never try.

Oscar Hammerstein Ii

Only fools are positive.

Moe Howard

I don't know what it is about him and April Fool's. I think he's evil and we should put him in a home.

Tom Johnston

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

Plato

I don't like to call myself a poet, ... Most poets are shiftless, no-account fools.

August Kleinzahler

Fools are not Foolish.

Atom Egoyan

Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

Karl Marx

We'd be fools not to ride this strange torpedo to the end.

Hunter S. Thompson

We had to win. We couldn't go back to Boston looking like a bunch of fools.

Sean Williams

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

George Lorimer

DESTINY, n. A tyrant's authority for crime and fool's excuse for failure.

Ambrose Bierce

Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

If silence be good for the wise, how much better for fools.

The Talmud

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

Charles Lamb

Chance is the fool's name for Fate.

Fred Astaire

Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.

Christina Of Sweden

Wise man learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Censor

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Dick Armey

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

Barbara Smith

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

Ezra Taft Benson

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.

Edward Young