A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him read more

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them.

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them.

A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.

What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

Lord, what fools these mortals be.

Lord, what fools these mortals be.