#fool

Alvin smiled back, and kissed her. "People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That's nothing. We name them. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#counting #fools #funny #funny

Most folks don't have but a few days to a week's worth of food in their houses at any given time. When they run out, they'll have to forage. Only the fools will forage in town. The smart ones will look on the outskirts. ↗

— Edward M. Wolfe

#food #food-storage #fool #fools #forage

Compromise is a stalling between two fools. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#foolishness #fools #humor #humor

Good madonna, give me leave to prove you a fool. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#fool #humor #labels #olivia #twelfth-night

To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one! ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#exceptions #fool #fools #idiot #idiots

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. ↗

— Max Gluckman

#beyond #discipline #fool #generation #genius

Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever. ↗

— François de La Rochefoucauld

#foolishness #intelligence #madness #passion #intelligence

If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#humanity #intelligence #intelligence

Even if lifelong A fool attends upon a wise man, He no more knows dhammas Than a spoon knows the flavours of soup. Even if for a moment An intelligent man attends upon a wise man, He quickly knows dhammas As the tongue knows the flavours of soup. ↗

— Anonymous

#fools #intelligence #vv- #intelligence

Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools ↗

— Gene Brown

#intelligence #intelligence