Fool Quote by Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Download Open image “The most trying fools are the bright ones.” — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fool Trying
The real fools are the ones who are too practical for their own happiness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Fools, their wisdom weak, are their own enemies as they go through life, doing evil that bears bitter fruit. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest. — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
The highest skill is the true judgment of values. — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
However different men's fortunes may be, there is always something or other that balances the ill and the good, and makes all even at… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
Most frequently we make confidants from vanity, a love of talking, a wish to win the confidence of others, and to make an exchange… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever. — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
Young women that would not be thought coquettish, and old men that would not be ridiculous, should never talk of love, as if they… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
The unbosoming oneself to another is a kind of release to the soul, which strives to lighten its burden and find ease by throwing… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
The disabusing a man strongly possessed with an opinion of his own worth is the very same ill office that was done to the… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
Nature seems to have treasured up the depth of our mind talents and abilities that we are not aware of; it is the privilege… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
What men have given the name of friendship to is nothing but an alliance, a reciprocal accommodation of interest, an exchange of good offices;… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
Nothing is given so willingly as advice. — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Not wise, perhaps, to be rude to the Pope's favorite son, but my viper tongue still required a fool now and then on which… — Kate Quinn Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools… — William Booth Copy Share Image
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it — WC Fields Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image