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Fools !!! (22)

  1. Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something. -Plato.
  2. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -Abraham Lincoln.
  3. "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God." -The Bible.
  4. The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool.  The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.-Buddha (563 - 483 BC).
  5. " When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat. " -Nelson Mandela.
  6. A fool and his money are easily parted. -Proverb.
  7. Idleness is a fool's desire. -Proverb.
  8. " Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. " -Andre Maurois.
  9. I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. -Alexandre Dumas.
  10. Neither give cherries to pigs nor advice to a fool. -Irish Proverb.
  11. He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. -Chinese Proverb.
  12. Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference. -Anonymous.
  13. Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. -Napoleon Bonaparte.
  14. Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool. -Bernard Shaw.
  15. A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. -Robert Frost.
  16. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. -Abraham Lincoln.
  17. " Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less. " -W Somerset Maugham.
  18. Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. -George Bernard Shaw.
  19. The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. -Mark Twain.
  20. Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. -Albert Einstein.
  21. Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca.
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