Funny Quotes about Foolishness
You don't have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool enough to get elected.
—Gerald Barzan
Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
—Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.
—Plato
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
—Cato the Elder
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
—Benjamin Franklin
This is the day (April Fool's Day) upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
—Mark Twain
There is a foolish corner even in the brain of the sage.
—Aristotle
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
—Heinrich Heine
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
—Mark Twain
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
—Charles Caleb Colton
The first of April, some do say
Is set apart for All Fool's Day;
But why the people call it so
Nor I, nor they themselves, do know,
But on this day are people sent
On purpose for pure merriment.
—Poor Robin's Almanac (1790)
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
—Josh Billings
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