Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse

A fool’s paradise is a wise man’s hell

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing.

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife’s ear.

Everyone has a bookplate these days, and the collectors are after it. The fool and his bookplate are soon parted. To distribute one’s ex libris is inanely to destroy the only significance it has, that of indicating the past or present ownership of the volume in which it is placed

Thou man of scruffy looks, thou who heard’st nerfs, Thou fool-born wimpled roughhewn waste waste of flesh!

It was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly;.

That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me.

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool

Whether Barack Obama is simply incompetent as president or has some hidden agenda to undermine this country, at home and abroad, he has nearly everything he needs to ruin America, including a fool for a vice president

It may be that the voice of the people is the voice of God 51 times out of 100. But the remaining 49 times, it is the voice of the devil, or worse, the voice of a fool. Theodore Roosevelt.

A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit to the race in general.

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool’s option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn’t raised a fool.

Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.

Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one’s whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

A wise man told me don’t argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can’t tell who is who.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to.
If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent.
If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked.
If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?

We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.

The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death… just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.

The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with each other, in whatever circumstances they may be, that they will neither injure nor be injured.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit

In hopes, you’re on the other side talking to me, too Or am I a fool who sits alone talking to the moon?

The easiest person to fool is yourself.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.

Only a fool never changes his mind.

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

Only a fool trips on what’s behind them.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don’t let that fool you. He really is an idiot.

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.

A fool with a tool still remains a fool.

Dying is for fools. I’m proud of what I created. I exposed people to magic. I exposed people to things they would never see in their normal lives.

Look what I’m dealing with, man, I’m dealing with fools and trolls.

There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

Six hours sleep for a man, seven for a woman and eight for a fool.

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.

The whole problem with the world is the fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves, and wiser people are full of doubts.

Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased

He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

Man is without any doubt the most interesting fool there is. Also the most eccentric. He hasn’t a single written law, in his Bible or out of it, which has any but just one purpose and intention — to limit or defeat the law of God.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough

Don’t let them fool ya, or even try to school ya

We don’t have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool

I have no education, I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

You can fool some people sometimes, but you can’t fool all the people all the time

In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty

A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.

Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

I make a great difference between people. I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not got one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me. Is that very vain of me? I think it is rather vain

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

Cause if you share your success and not your struggle, you’re a fool.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand. Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist let’s not be fools  but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave

You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!

A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity

No creature smarts so little as a fool

Fools! who from hence into the notion fall that vice or virtue there is none at all.

For forms of government let fools contest; that which is best administered is best

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread

It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of other

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish

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.

You can fool a lot of yourself but you can’t fool the soul.