(282 quotes found)
“As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether thy be wise or foolish”
Demosthenes
“Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.”
Cher
“A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends”
Arabian Proverb
“The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't get out and those outside don't want to get in.”
Arthur Brisbane
“No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.”
Croesus of Lydia
“As crazy as hauling timber into the woods.”
Horace
“He who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client”
Proverb
“Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced”
Alfred North Whitehead
“The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.”
“When the fool is told a Proverb, its meaning has to be explained to him”
African Proverb
