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VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.

Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

Violence has never prospered, you can't remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

Warren Buffett is fond of saying that any player unaware of the fool in the market probably is the fool in the market.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.

We are in a fool's climate, accidentally kept cool by smoke, and before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.

We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.

We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble

We fool ourselves into thinking that the spreadsheets that capture our financial projections are something different than what they are.

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.

We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile - The mind turns fool, before the cheek is dry

Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.

We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.

We see God and the devil making fools of each other, and we nurture in ourselves the absolutely unshakable conviction that both of them are drunk.

We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

Well then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?

We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.

We should not fool ourselves. When the Quran says wa la qad karamna Bani Adam ["we have honored the Children of Adam"] so yes we should all be free but this should not mean that we must act against the dignity of human beings.

What a fool I have been!

What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!

What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!

What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?

What fools call "wasting time" is most often the best investment.

What fools these mortals be. (Acheron)

What I hate most in life are people who are not really the peach of the day but who want to be young and sexy. You can fool nobody. There is a moment when you have to accept that somebody else is younger and fresher and hotter. Life is not a beauty contest.

What have you done when you have bested a fool?

What-ifs are for fools. We are here because are meant to be.

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!

What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.

What matter though the scorn of fools be given If the path follow'd lead us on to heaven!

What is wealth? A dream of fools.

What one fool can do another can.

what the situation will be like in the world before the Lord returns, namely, Christ will be despised, and the preachers of the Gospel will be regarded as fools.

What you guys want, I'm for.

When a father is quick to lose his tempre, his sons are fools.

When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool.

When a king creates an office, Providence creates immediately a fool to buy it.

When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue.

When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.

When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was a mirror of my Self.