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A quiet fool is half a sage. - Yiddish Proverb

The fool wonders, the wise man asks. - Benjamin Disraeli

Arguing with a fool proves there are two. - Doris M. Smith

Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune. - Lady Murasaki

There is nothing so practical as a good theory. - Kurt Lewin

You can fool too many people too much of the time. - James Thurber

The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself. - Steve Martin

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. - Von Clausewitz

You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think. - Talmud

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. - Marcus Aurelius

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. - Colette

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. - Albert Einstein

A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. - Latin Proverb

In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer. - Oscar Wilde

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. - Charlie Chaplin

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. - Jim Elliot

The husband who desires to surprise is often very much surprised himself. - Voltaire

A fellow who is always declaring he’s no fool usually has suspicions. - Wilson Miznor

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are well-dressed fools. - Sebastien Chamfort

After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works. - Gwen Stefani

There is a world of practical religion in simply being considerate of others. - Roger Babson

Any lack of confidence in the economic future of the United States is foolish. - Herbert Hoover

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. - Benjamin Franklin

In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows. - Woody Allen

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. - Chinese Proverb

It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people. - Pamela Anderson

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness. - Cicero

Even a wise man knows doubt from time to time, it is the fool who allows it to rule his judgement. - Jennifer Hudock

It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling. - Dale Breckenridge Carnegie

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. - P.J. O'Rourke

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university. - Albert Einstein

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room. - Lisa Alther

He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot. - Groucho Marx

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. - Peter Ustinov

The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see. - Huang-Po

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

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get it. - Arthur Brisbane

As a rule man is a fool,
When it's hot he wants it cool,
When it's cool he wants it hot,
Always wanting what is not. - Unknown

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense. - Joseph Addison