James Thurber:
"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time."
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Wilson Mizner:
"A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions. "
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Unknown:
"A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
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Samuel Butler:
"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well."
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Albert Einstein:
"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."
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Unknown:
"Fools rush in where fools have been before."
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Mae West:
"He who hesitates is a damned fool."
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Mark Twain:
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
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Euripides:
"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."
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Richard P. Feynman:
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool."
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Dale Carnegie:
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do."
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Baltasar Gracian:
"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."
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Moe Howard:
"Only fools are positive."
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Bertrand Russell:
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
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E. F. Schumacher:
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
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Solomon Short:
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
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Charles de Montesquieu:
"An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations."
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Heinrich Heine:
"There are more fools in the world than there are people."
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Robert Benchley:
"Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony."
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Robert Morley:
"Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public."
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Thoreau:
"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."
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Plato:
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
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Josh Billings:
"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way."
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James Oppenheim:
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."
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Alexander Pope:
"Fools admire, but men of sense approve."
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
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Sir Richard Steele:
"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."
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George S. Patton:
"Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his."
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Anonymous:
"Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference."
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Unknown:
"Never give advice... A wise man won't need it A fool won't heed it."
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Lord Byron:
"I'll publish right or wrong. Fools are my theme, let satire be my song."
----- Winston Churchill:
"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."
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William of Baskerville, The Name of the Rose:
"So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now."
----- William Cowper, Conversation:
"'Tis hard if all is false that I advance A fool must now and then be right, by chance."
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Chinese proverb:
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."
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Wilson Mizner:
"A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions."
----- Bertrand Russell:
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
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Carl Jung:
"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."
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Anatole France:
"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
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Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless:
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
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DIetEr:
"iF YoU HAve ReaD ThiS FAr eXPEctINg An anSWer, yOu ArE A FOoL!!!!!!
IDioT!!!!!!"
APriL FOoLs!!!!!!
-- Dieter (questions@toask.com), April 01, 1999