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Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool. — Miguel de Cervantes
When my pals in high school were starting to drink, it always looked unappealing to me. I would be at a big party and see… — Kathy Griffin
We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the… — Charles Caleb Colton
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned. — Quintilian
The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant… — William Ralph Inge
Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own. — Benjamin Franklin
Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one… — Thomas Jefferson
Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad. — John Ray
The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie. — Gore Vidal
There are two fools in every marketplace; one asks too little, one asks too much. — Alan Sugar
The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on… — Elbert Hubbard
A prosperous fool is a grievous burden. — Aeschylus
Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold. — Baltasar Gracian
Those who realise their folly are not true fools. — Zhuangzi
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection. — Frank Moore Colby
A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable. — Napoleon Bonaparte
He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he cannot perceive. And he's a fool a fool who tries to make such a blockhead… — Prince William
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom. — Nicolas Chamfort
Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office. — Aesop

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