“Lord, what fools these mortals be.”
“The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.”
“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.”
“A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.”
“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.”
“A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.”
“When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.”
“Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum.”
“Fools are without number.”
“No one but a fool is always right.”
“Most fools think they are only ignorant.”
“Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.”
“Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.”
“The fool needs company, the wise solitude.”
“A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.”
“Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.”
“Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.”
“The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.”
“How many fools does it take to make up a public?”
“A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.”
“In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool.”
“Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.”
“Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.”
“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
“A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.”
“A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.”
“Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.”
“He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.”
“The fool has to do at last what the wise did at first.”
“The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.”