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Fool Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
- Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain…
- Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
More Fool Quotes
- To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. — Marcus Aurelius
- And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool. — Dan Aykroyd
- People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors. — Francis Bacon
- Silence is the virtue of fools. — Francis Bacon
- There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks… — Francis Bacon
- Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. — Douglas Bader
- A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. — Lord Acton
- Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now. — David Bailey
- When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools. — Russell Baker
- 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… — Honore de Balzac
- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. — Douglas Adams