"To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass."
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"The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools."
"Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other."
"A prosperous fool is a grievous burden."
"In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it."
"Love's for fools wise enough to take a chance."
"Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other."
"A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other."
"Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool."
"I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool."
"Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool."
"Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force."
"Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion."
"Old fools are greater fools than young ones."
"Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries."
"I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and the other half can’t find it."
"Too many men are afraid of being fools."
"We are all fools in love."
"Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense."
"what the situation will be like in the world before the Lord returns, namely, Christ will be despised, and the preachers of the Gospel will be regarded as fools."