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Saturday, May 18th, 2024
Eve of Pentacost
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Fools'

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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
E. M. Forster, English Novelist (1879-1970)
Silence is the wit of fools.
Anatole France, French Novelist (1844-1924)
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Benjamin Franklin, American Politician (1706-1790)
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
Benjamin Franklin, American Politician (1706-1790)
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
Benjamin Franklin, American Politician (1706-1790)
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin Franklin, American Politician (1706-1790)
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Benjamin Franklin, American Politician (1706-1790)
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman (1608-1661)
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
John Gay, English Poet (1685-1732)
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet (1749-1832)
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Oliver Goldsmith, Irish Poet (1730-1774)
Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached.
Kenneth Grahame, Scottish Novelist (1859-1932)
Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.
Franz Grillparzer, Austrian Poet (1791-1872)
My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.
Salma Hayek, Mexican Actress (1966-  )
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
Heinrich Heine, German Poet (1797-1856)
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
Claud-Adrian Helvetius, Philosopher (1715-  )
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist (1899-1961)
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
Thomas Hobbes, English Philosopher (1588-1679)
Words are the money of fools.
Thomas Hobbes, English Philosopher (1588-1679)
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.
Thomas Hobbes, English Philosopher (1588-1679)
 
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