Quotes About Foolishness

Education makes some men wiser, others more ridiculous and foolish!

A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't.

Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.

A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.

Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered.

Men are cheaters. Women are not to be trusted. And most people are dumb.

Never underestimate the capacity of noble young men to do incredibly foolish things for perfectly good reasons.

The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.

The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil.

Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.

I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.

If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.

The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.

Great men honour intelligence, little men honour stupidity.

Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed in distant hills pales as dross compared to treasure we had in hand.

Man and wife make one fool.

Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

The wise men were all fools, what to do?

The man who fails to give fair service during the hours for which he is paid is dishonest. The man who is not willing to give more than this is foolish.

Men turn their faces to hell, and hope to get to heaven; why don't they walk into the horsepond, and hope to be dry?.

The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him.