Thank Goodness It’s Friday : April Fool’s Day Anti-Wisdom Quotes
“You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think.” — Talmud
“The fool wonders; the wise man asks.” — Benjamin Disraeli
“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education.” — George Bernard Shaw
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.” – Richard P. Feynman
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” – Bruce Lee
“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.” – Baltasar Gracian
“The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.” — Epicurus
“A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.” – Louis L’Amour
“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.” — Henry David Thoreau
“You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.” – George W. Bush
“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays
“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.” ― George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)
“A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.” — Miguel de Unamuno
“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.” – Carl Jung
“A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.” — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“Never tell a fool that he is a fool. All you’ll have is an angry fool.” — Talmud
“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.” – Sholom Aleichem
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.” – Mark Twain
“Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.” — HL Mencken
“A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.” — HL Mencken
“One fool at least in every married couple.” — Henry Fielding
“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.” – Robert Frost
“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.” – Samuel Johnson
“People have discovered that they can fool the devil, but they can’t fool the neighbors.” — Francis Bacon
