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• A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

  Thomas Tusser

  Money, Italian, Taxation

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

  William Blake

  Wise, Photography, Teaching

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'Proverbs of Hell'

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• Wise men speak because they have something to say

  Plato

  Wise, Communication, Men

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

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Humor, Fools Day

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• A fool and his money are soon partying.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Money, Party

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• The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Wise, Silly

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

  Douglas Bader

  Wise, Wisdom, Work

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• A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.

  Warren Buffett

  Money, Italian, Taxes Funny

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• Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1838). “The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Preface. Formula fidei de ss. Trinitate. Nightly prayer. Notes on the book of common prayer; Hooker; Field; Donne; Henry More; Heinrichs; Hacket; Jeremy Taylor; The pilgrim's progress; John Smith. Letter to a godchild”, p.186

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• Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.

  Virginia Foxx

  Stupid, Silly, Fools Day

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. November 6, 2009.

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• We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Motivational, Respect

  Speech at St. Louis, 22 Mar. 1964, in St Louis Post-Dispatch 23 Mar. 1964

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Funny, Wise, Humor

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 8, 1595.

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  Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

  Alexander Pope

  Wisdom, Fear, Angel

  An Essay on Criticism l. 625 (1711)

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• Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

  William Shakespeare

  Cute, Witty, Fools Day

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [37]

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• Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Stupid, Mind

  Henry David Thoreau, Richard Dillman (1987). “Thoreau's comments on the art of writing”

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• Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Wisdom, Witty, Clever

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Wise, Men, Way

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.114, Reprint Services Corporation

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• I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep. the common coin that purchases all things, the balance that levels shepherd and king, fool and wise man. there is only one bad thing about sound sleep. They say it closely resembles death.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Wise, Kings, Sleep

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• Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Men, Half

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• Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wise, Dirty, Snakes

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Josefine Nauckhoff (2001). “Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

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