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Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.
Martin Luther
In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.
Jean Baudrillard
Why fools are endowed by nature with voices so much louder than sensible people possess is a mystery. It is a fact emphasized throughout history.
Hertzler
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
Nicholas Boileau
Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
The Family of Fools is ancient
Benjamin Franklin
He who knows he who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child, teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep, wake him. He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise, follow him.
Proverb
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Most fools think they are only ignorant.
The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs of his neighbor.
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
George Bernard Shaw
He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.
English Proverb
Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
Its quite true there's a fool born every minute. It's also quite true they don't die that fast.
Source Unknown
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
It is rude to silence a fool, and cruelty to let him go on.
What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.
It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
Harold MacMillan
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
Thomas Shadwell
