#fool

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. ↗

— Erica Jong

#also #being #cover #ever #fool

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#man #may #speak #speaks #talk

After granting amnesty to illegals 20 years ago, we have gone from 3 million illegals to 11 million illegals. Our government has been fooled once by this amnesty argument, let us not be fooled again. ↗

— Ric Keller

#again #ago #amnesty #argument #been

I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#down #feet #fool #i #position

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#far #foolish #greater #possibility #progress

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#birth #born #come #education #estate

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#clever man #fool #man #manage #needs

More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves - they can't depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#change #depend #easy #especially #fool

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#fine #fool #hand #man #pebble

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#another woman #fool #her #him #make