Foolish Sayings

It has often been observed that a fool and his money are soon parted. And that no woman can make a wise man out of a fool, but every woman can change a wise man into a fool. How about this winner: Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet! If you can’t learn from the past, it just gets worse: Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

So much foolish behavior has led to some deep thought! For example: The wise man asks questions of himself; the fool questions others. Or: A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything. Or: A wise man learns at the fool's expense. Or: The fool does what he can't avoid, the wise man avoids what he can't do.

Let’s at least take a little bit of comfort from what Abraham Lincoln wisely observed, 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. Thank God for small favors!

Here are some more quotes from famous people:

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Looking foolish does the spirit good. John Updike

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them, the rest of us could not succeed. Mark Twain

It is better to be a fool than to be dead. Robert Louis Stevenson