Fools build houses, and wise men buy them…

  • A fellow, who is always declaring that he’s no fool, usually has his suspicions. ~ Wilson Mizner
  • A fool and his money are soon parted. ~ English Proverb
  • A fool and his money get a lot of publicity. ~ Al Bernstein
  • A fool must now and then be right, by chance. ~ William Cowper
  • A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy. ~ John Churton Collins
  • A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen. ~ George Eliot
  • A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. ~ William Blake
  • A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune. ~ Author Unknown
  • A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat. ~ Louis L’Amour
  • Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it. ~ Henry David Thoreau
  • Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction. ~ E. F. Schumacher
  • Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. ~ George Bernard Shaw
  • Don’t approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side. ~ Jewish Proverb
  • Every fool finds a greater one to admire them. ~ Nicholas Boileau
  • Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been. ~ Josh Billings
  • He is a fool who does not consider his own interests. ~ Maltese Proverb
  • He is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep in order to gain that which he cannot lose. ~ Author Unknown
  • He who hesitates is a damned fool. ~ Mae West
  • It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank; it is a fool who dies that way. ~ French Proverb
  • It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others. ~ Author Unknown
  • It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son — and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. ~ Helen Rowland
  • It’s quite true there’s a fool born every minute. It’s also quite true they don’t die that fast. ~ Author Unknown
  • Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up. ~ Elbert Hubbard
  • My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows. ~ Author Unknown
  • Success makes a fool seem wise. ~ English Proverb
  • The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way. ~ Josh Billings
  • The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance. ~ Michael Korda
  • The fool is always beginning to live. ~ Author Unknown
  • The wise does at once what the fool does at last. ~ Baltasar Gracian
  • The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it. ~ Author Unknown
  • While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple. ~ Gerald W. Grumet
  • You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising budget is big enough. ~ Ed Rollins

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