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Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
-African Proverb
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
-English Proverb
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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
-English Proverb
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He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.
-English Proverb
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The fool has to do at last what the wise did at first.
-Italian Proverb
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Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
-Yiddish Proverb
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In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool.
-Yiddish Proverb
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He who knows he who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child, teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep, wake him. He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise, follow him.
-Proverb
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What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.
-Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
-Proverb
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A fool and his money are soon parted.
-Proverb
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The fool is always beginning to live.
-Proverb
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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
-Honore de Balzac
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In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.
-Jean Baudrillard
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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
-Al Bernstein
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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.
-Al Bernstein
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There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t.
-Josh Billings
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Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
-Josh Billings
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.
-Josh Billings
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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.
-Bioleau
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
-William Blake
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However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
-Nicholas Boileau
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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
-Nicholas Boileau
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
-Nicholas Boileau
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Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
-Gene Brown
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Books about Fools, Foolishness
