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Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving. — Dale Carnegie

The thoughts of the wise are in the house of mourning, but the thoughts of fools are in the house of pleasure" (CJB, Ecclesiastes 7:4). — H.W. Charles

You are foolish, but without fools there would be no wisdom — John Colton

But old fools is the biggest fools there is. — Mark Twain

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

How wise are they that are but fools in love! — Josh Cooke

I'm sorry Mr Lichtenstein, but your January birthday means only one thing and that's you're probably conceived
on April Fools Day. — Olivia Lichtenstein

PROV 1.7. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. — Anonymous

Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity. — Thomas Browne

20. He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. — Anonymous

It means that you two, precious father and son, would be a pair of knaves if you had sense enough; but, failing in that, you are only a pair of fools! — E.D.E.N. Southworth

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper. — Olive Schreiner

The young people think the old people are fools
but the old people know the young people are fools. — Agatha Christie

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools. — Edmund Burke

All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well. — John Stuart Blackie

The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry. — Ernest Hemingway,

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools. — Benjamin Disraeli

It is bad enough to see young fools, but worse to see old fools. — Brigham Young

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. — Samuel Palmer

A bit of a fool, you might say, but all dreamers are fools. — George R R Martin

Like all good students, I yearned for nothing but approval, even from fools. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

Whoever has said these things is a fool." "Aye, but the words of a fool hold weight with other fools. — Samantha Holt

All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns. — George R R Martin

Failing doesn't make us a failure. But not trying to do better, to be better, does make us fools. — Wes Moore

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

An eye for an eye is smart, see, but love is dumb, lovers are fools. — David James Duncan

Probably I am a fool ... most poets are fools ... but for some reason I love faith, but have none. — Anne Sexton

Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools. — Walter Winchell

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

As the saying goes
life's a thing that none but fools would keep. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Life without hope is hopelessly difficult but at the end hope can so easily make fools of us all. — Henry Marsh

Only a fool believed women less dangerous than men, but women often seemed to think men fools when it came to women. — Robert Jordan

21 The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense. 22 The Lord's blessing enriches, and struggle adds nothing to it. — Anonymous

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. — Oliver Goldsmith

We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they? — Mignon McLaughlin

Battles I lose none I make crews run
I get fools done, got ten fingers but only use one — Big L

19. The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil. — Anonymous

Truth imprisons fools, but sets the wise free. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Of course he was afraid of war. Only fools are not. Anaxantis was no fool. He was fully prepared to fight, but only as a last resort. — Andrew Ashling

But it's what the world does to people. It makes some of us feel ugly and it makes some of us look like criminals, like angry fools. — Jacqueline Woodson

May be we are not such fools as we look. But though we be, we are well content, so long as we may be two fools together. — R.D. Blackmore

Most fools think he is the wisest person but the most wise person thinks he is a fool. — Debasish Mridha

Real comedy is not when you laugh at an idiot, it's when the idiot laughs at you. — Raheel Farooq

7 Stay away from fools, for you won't find knowledge on their lips. 8 The prudent understand where they are going, but fools deceive themselves. — Anonymous

love was nothing but a prison for fools. — Roberta Kagan

Love is wisdom, love is in giving, love is god, and god is love but there is no wise or fools for love. Love is equal for each one of us. — Santosh Kalwar

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

Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools. — Thiruvalluvar

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power. — Kim Stanley Robinson

The dead know nothing, but they are better off than fools. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You are sure that you are right but you don't want everyone to think as you do. There is no truth without fools. — Don DeLillo

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die. — Edward Young

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm. — Anonymous

Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man. — Robert Jordan

Anybody who has traveled this far on a fool's errand," said Salo, "has no choice but to uphold the honor of fools by completing the errand. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I don't know humans, but I know fools. And I know the surest way to encourage fools to follow a wicked man is to tell them not to. — R. Lee Smith

Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject — Josh Billings

The fool who knows his folly
Becomes wise by that fact.
But the fool who thinks he's wise -
He's called 'a fool' indeed! — Anonymous

In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves. — P.D. James

Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it. — Benjamin Franklin

But there are many fools in the world. One praises God for their existence and keeps out of their way. — Agatha Christie

It does not take much to make us realize what fools we are, but the little it takes is long in coming. — Flannery O'Connor

There are some very good people in television, but a lot of fools running it. — Philip Glenister

When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean. — Linji Yixuan

The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money. — Adam Smith

You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. — Billy Joel

Fools rush in, but they are laggards compared to little old ladies with nothing left to fear. — Terry Pratchett

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend. — Chanakya

It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies. — Maggie Smith

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

Foolish men always believe that a little knowledge will give them control over the world, but it is no more than a display of their vanity. — J. P. Vinluca

Fools wait for a lucky day, but everyday is a lucky day for an industrious man. — Gautama Buddha

Ah, but would we not all be the fools to attack an armored turtle through its shell? — R.A. Salvatore

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. — John Muir

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

Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools. — David C. Stark

What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists? — Catherynne M Valente

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that. — Benjamin Franklin

Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools. — George Chapman

All men burn with foolish jealousy, but women are fools to take delight in it. This world is full of fools no matter where you look. — Isuna Hasekura

Liars corrupt knowledge,
and fools pervert wisdom,
but the wise hallow both.
Knowledge holds the truth. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Grief made fools of us all. There was shock in it, but there could hardly be surprise. — Lia Mills

Winners will take what they know and share it with others.
The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom. — Anonymous

This may come as a shock to some of you, but I have a slightly volatile personality. I don't suffer fools well. — Tucker Max

The future is bright, but fools run straight ahead and get blinded then complain, because they didn't prepare by simply wearing a pair of shades. — James Jean-Pierre

And some will believe. The fools. But others will not. Red and Silver, high and low, some will see the truth. — Victoria Aveyard

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Proverbs 28:26
Those who trust in their own reasoning are fools, but those who walk in Wisdom will be kept safe. — Anonymous

They do say that God protects fools - but I think even the Almighty will lose patience now and then. — Diana Gabaldon

When I see Bin Laden with his AK-47, I got nervous. But what can I do, terrorists aren't fools: they too chose the most reliable guns. — Mikhail Kalashnikov

Words are fools
Who follow blindly, once they get a lead.
But thoughts are kingfishers that haunt the pools
Of quiet; seldom-seen... — Siegried Sassoon

We are fallen fools, most of our philosophy is not "the proper use of human reason" but the improper use of human reason. — Peter Kreeft

The earth destroys its fools, but the intelligent destroy the earth. — Khalid Ibn Al-Walid

One may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospects — Claude C. Hopkins

But fools wil persist in their madness, will they not? — Maya Rodale

But heroes, at times, had to be fools. — Steve Berry

But what if we are dealing with fools? — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Experience," says the proverb, "is a hard school to attend, but fools will learn in no — J.C. Ryle