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He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
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.
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.
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 foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
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.
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.
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.