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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt.
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.
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.
There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow read more
There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.