A fool who knows he is a fool has a little intelligence, but a fool that thinks he is intelligent is really a fool.
It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
All men are fools, but all fools are not men.
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
There's no fool like a learned fool.
There's no fool like an old fool.
If you follow a fool, you're a fool yourself.
A fool is someone who trusts another fool.
Fools are more useful to the wise than wise are to fools.
A fool who knows Latin is never a real fool.
Fooled once shame on you, fooled twice shame on me.
The fool who owns an ox is seldom recognized as a fool.
Aye, say thou fool? Then fool, good Sir, am I. But when thou sayest fool remember well That fools do walk in foolish company. So if I am a fool, perhaps ’tis true That other fools around me may be found.
Deception and self-deception are intimately intertwined. We fool ourselves in order to fool others, and we fool others in order to fool ourselves.
When a hundred men call a wise man a fool, then he becomes a fool.
If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.
He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes; he who asks no questions stays a fool forever.
If a fool borrows a book cut off his hand; but cut off both hands of the fool who brings it back.
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
