Churchill, Winston

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

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France, Anatole

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

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Horace

It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

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La Bruyere, Jean

Silence is the wit of fools.

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Nagarjuna

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

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Shakespeare, William

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

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Spenser, Edmund

For take thy balance if thou be so wise And weigh the wind that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.

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Taylor, Jeremy

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

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Voltaire

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

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