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Aristotle1 quote

The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool. — Aristotle · 322 BC

Benjamin Franklin1 quote

Experience keeps a dear school, yet Fools will learn In no other. — Benjamin Franklin · 1743

Douglas Adams1 quote

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. — Douglas Adams · 1992

Elizabeth Barrett Browning1 quote

For say a foolish thing enough… ... The same thing Shall pass at last for absolutely wise, And not with fools exclusively. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 1856

Francis Bacon1 quote

Silence is the virtue of a fool. — Francis Bacon · 1605

Hesiod1 quote

The fool learns by suffering. — Hesiod · 700 BC

Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset1 quote

Fools are here below for our minor pleasures. — Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset · 1747

Lord Chesterfield1 quote

Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so. — Lord Chesterfield · 1747

Mark Twain1 quote

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. — Mark Twain · 1894

Obi-Wan Kenobi1 quote

Who's the more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it? — Obi-Wan Kenobi · 1977

Robert Louis Stevenson1 quote

It is better to be a fool than to be dead. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1881

William Blake1 quote

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. — William Blake · 1793

William Cowper1 quote

A fool must now and then be right, by chance. — William Cowper · 1782

William Shakespeare1 quote

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. — William Shakespeare · 1616