Quotes About Foolishness

Any man who is not a communist at the age of 20 is a fool.

Too many men are afraid of being fools.

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

A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.

He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity.

Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with.

Golf does strange things to other people, too. It makes liars out of honest men, cheats out of altruists, cowards out of brave men and fools out of everybody.

A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.

Men are fools who forget what really matters while time goes by.

The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.

Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.

Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had

Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.