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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
Miguel de Cervantes
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
English Proverb
Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum.
John Updike
A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Robert Frost
The fool is always beginning to live.
Proverb
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Bertrand Russell
Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.
How many fools does it take to make up a public?
Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.
Gerald W. Grumet
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Horace
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
Honore de Balzac
Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.
Wes Smith
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.
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.
