"There are more fools than knaves in the……" — Samuel Butler
"There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon."
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Samuel Butler
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228 Quotes by Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler has 228 quotes on this site.
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to…
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want…
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till…
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will…
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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is…
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come…
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for…
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them…
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he…
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More Fools Quotes
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
— Francis Bacon
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Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
— Douglas Bader
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When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
— Russell Baker
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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
— Honore de Balzac
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For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and…
— Honore de Balzac
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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete…
— Douglas Adams
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The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
— Bernard Baruch
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Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.
— Robert Benchley
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Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes…
— Ambrose Bierce
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There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
— Josh Billings
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