Lord, what fools these mortals be.
-William Shakespeare
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
-Alexander Pope
In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool.
-Yiddish Proverb
The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool.
-The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.
-Ray Bradbury
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.
-Thomas Fuller
Misfortune will follow the fool
-The Oculatum
When you are fooled by something else, the damage will not be so big.
But when you are fooled by yourself, it is fatal.
-Shunryu Suzuki
But when you are fooled by yourself, it is fatal.
-Shunryu Suzuki
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
-Tobias Smollett
The fool sees not the same tree the wise man sees.
-William Blake
Wise men think out their thoughts;
fools proclaim them.
-Heinrich Heine
What a fool does last
a wise man does first
-The Oculatum
The hours of folly are measured by the clock;
but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
-William Blake
A fool flatters himself,
a wise man flatters the fool.
-Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The wise man understands the fool,
for he himself was once a fool;
but the fool does not understand the wise man,
since he never was wise.
-Persian Proverb
One fool is an expert on another.
-Yiddish Proverb
Never defend yourself of words from a fool
unless you are willing to become his/her equal.
-Gene Crawford
He is a fool
that cannot conceal his wisdom.
-Benjamin Franklin
When a fool holds his tongue,
he, too, is thought clever.
-The Bible
People do not wish to appear foolish;
to avoid the appearance of foolishness,
they are willing to remain actually fools.
-Alice Walker
You are never so easily fooled
as when trying to fool someone else.
-François de La Rochefoucauld
When the head is a fool,
the body is in trouble.
-Yiddish Proverb
Only a fool grows without rain.
-Yiddish Proverb
The fool is always beginning to live.
-Proverb
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
-Thomas Shadwell
That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness,
someone else always suffers for them.
-Alfred Sutro
To marry a fool
is to be no fool.
-Moliere
If the fool would persist in his folly,
he would become wise.
-William Blake
