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Quotes About Fool

The house of a childless person is a void, all directions are void to one who has no relatives, the heart of a fool is also void, but to a poverty stricken man all is void.
~ Chanakya
The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.
~ Elbert Hubbard
He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him
~ Confucius
A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.
~ Confucius
Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
~ Honore de Balzac
The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.
~ Mark Twain
... there's also nothing noble about being fearless. How much do you wanna bet the last man standing in a battle is usually the biggest fool of all?" - Paul Hudson
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
~ Joseph Addison
Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.
~ Rudyard Kipling
If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.
~ Desmond Bagley
A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.
~ Erasmus Darwin
An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.
~ Maxim Gorky
The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.
~ Og Mandino
Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with.
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
~ Billy Joel
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
~ Heinrich Heine
A man must be a born fool who voluntarily engages in controversy with Mr. Adams on a question of fact. I doubt whether he was ever mistaken in his life.
~ Henry Clay
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
~ Henry Fielding
A fool is he that comes to preach or prate, When men with swords their right and wrong debate. [It., Chi conta i colpi e la dovuta offesa, Mentr' arde la tenzon, misura e pesa?]
~ Torquato Tasso
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
~ Cesare Pavese
Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
~ George Eliot
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
~ Baron de Montesquieu