April Fool Wishes and Status Messages - Page 9

Wise men learn by other men''s mistakes, fools by their own.

Wise men don''t need advice. Fools won''t take it.

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one,
must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.\

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool''s coat still.

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn''t be any fun living in it, or profit.

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

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself.
The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Don''t approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

The fool is always beginning to live.

Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools.

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

The great God endows His children variously. To some He gives intellect...and they
move the earth. To some He allots heart...and the beating pulse of humanity is theirs.
But to some He gives only a soul, without intelligence...and these, who never grow up,
but remain always His children, are God''s fools, kindly, elemental, simple, as if from
His palette the Artist of all has taken one color instead of many.

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

To be a man''s fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody''s.

None but a fool is always right.

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

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

A fool may be known by six things: anger without cause; speech without profit;
change without progress; inquiry without object; putting trust in a stranger; and
mistaking foes for friends.

Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be so.

Silence is the wit of fools.

There is no greater fool than he that says, ''There is no God,'' unless it be the one
who says he does not know whether there is one or not.

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

A fellow who is always declaring he''s no fool, usually has his suspicions.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.