“He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.”
“Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.”
“The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.”
“I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.”
“What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.”
“Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.”
“In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.”
“A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.”
“A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.”
“He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.”
“However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.”
“Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.”
“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”
“The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.”
“Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.”
“Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.”
“If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.”
“Spinoza Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.”
“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”
“The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.”
“Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.”
“It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.”
“A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.”
“They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.”
“Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?”
“No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.”
“On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.”
“Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.”
“The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.”
“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.”