Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
Socrates
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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
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
The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
Doug Larson
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
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
Next week we will be millionaires (Only Fools and Horses).
David Jason
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
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
I don't like to call myself a poet, ... Most poets are shiftless, no-account fools.
August Kleinzahler
Fools are not Foolish.
Atom Egoyan
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
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