Fools Quotes

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Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force. — Laozi
The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the… — Benjamin Franklin
Golf does strange things to other people, too. It makes liars out of honest men, cheats out of altruists, cowards out of brave men and… — Milt Gross
I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat;… — Og Mandino
If the gods sent you to fight here, then the gods are fools. — Janet Morris
The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools. — Doug Larson
Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it. — Benjamin Franklin
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
There are two fools in every marketplace; one asks too little, one asks too much. — Alan Sugar
Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold. — Baltasar Gracian
Those who realise their folly are not true fools. — Zhuangzi
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
Fools! You think of "god" as a sentient being. God is the word used to represent a force. This force created nothing, it just helps… — Diogenes
Let fools believe what fools believe. — Janet Morris

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