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The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
Epicurus
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Baltasar Gracian
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian
Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.
Earl Wilson
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
George Santayana
You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.
George W. Bush
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
Benjamin Disraeli
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
Francis Bacon
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Miguel de Cervantes
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
Pearl S. Buck
He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?
William Wycherley
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
Roald Dahl
Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.
Dylan Thomas
These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.
Dylan Thomas
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Charles de Montesquieu
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
Charles de Montesquieu
It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
W. Somerset Maugham
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
Horace
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