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- Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Candida (1898) act 1
- It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.
- Anne Bronte (1820 - 1849), Agnes Grey
- Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
- Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
- A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
- African Proverb
- A fool judges people by the presents they give him.
- Chinese Proverb
- Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes.
- Bible, Proverbs 26:4 (NIV)
- Great use they have, when in the hands
Of one like me, who understands, Who understands the time and place, The person, manner, and the grace, Which fools neglect; so that we find, If all the requisites are join'd, From whence a perfect joke must spring, A joke's a very serious thing. - Charles Churchill, "The Ghost", 1762, Book IV, lines 1379-1387
- Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
- Charlie Chaplin (1889 - 1977)
- I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
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