"The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them." — Isaac D'Israeli

More Fools Quotes

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• Silence is the virtue of fools. — Francis Bacon
• Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. — Douglas Bader
• 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… — Honore de Balzac
• A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete… — Douglas Adams
• The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible. — Bernard Baruch
• Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony. — Robert Benchley
• Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to. — Ezra Taft Benson
• History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers,… — Ambrose Bierce
• Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes… — Ambrose Bierce
• There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't. — Josh Billings

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