#fools

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#fool

There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again. ↗

— George W. Bush

#dumb #foolishness #fools #shame

We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#wisdom #wisdom-quote

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#elections #fools #government #intelligence #masses

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#main #main purpose #make #many #market

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#compounding #drinking #felony #fools #makes

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. ↗

— Voltaire

#difficult #fools #free #revere

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#appear #appears #art #color #eloquence

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#fools #found #impossible #only #word

Those who realize their folly are not true fools. ↗

— Zhuangzi

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