VIRTUAL DICTIONARY - FAMOUS QUOTES

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

A fool boasts of those who fear him; a wise man's pride is those who respect him.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt.

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.

There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.

While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

Why fools are endowed by nature with voices so much louder than sensible people possess is a mystery. It is a fact emphasized throughout history.

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

The fool is always beginning to live.