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“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
Douglas Adams
“Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.”
Charlie Chaplin
“Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.”
Martin Luther King
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
Martin Luther King
“Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.”
Quintilian
“Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.”
Albert Einstein
“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.”
Plato
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
Mark Twain
“A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”
Bruce Lee
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
Bruce Lee
“Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.”
Bruce Lee
“The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.”
Paulo Coelho
“Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.”
Agatha Christie
“It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.”
Og Mandino
“Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.”
Og Mandino
“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.”
Dale Carnegie
“To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.”
Buddha
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
Abraham Lincoln
“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
Abraham Lincoln
“It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.”
Horace
“It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.”
Horace
“While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.”
Horace
“Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.”
Horace
“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
Horace
“The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.”
Horace
“Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.”
Horace
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
Plato
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
Euripides
“Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.”
Honore de Balzac
“For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.”
Honore de Balzac
