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- Men have become fools with their tools.
- Thomas Elisha Stewart
- A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.
- S.J. Perelman
- If at first you don't succeed, try, try, and try again. Then give up. There's no use being a damned fool about it.
- William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)
- You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.
- Jacob Braude
- Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
- Napoleon
- Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.
- Joseph Wood Krutch (1893 - 1970)
- He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.
- Latin
- There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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