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A quiet fool is half a sage. - Yiddish Proverb

Architects are practical poets. - Unknown

The secret to humor is surprise. - Aristotle

Arguing with a fool proves there are two. - Doris M. Smith

A jester unemployed is nobody's fool. - Danny Kaye

It is better to be a fool than to be dead. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. - Alice Walker

Any fool can criticize, and many of them do. - Cyril Garbett

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. - Euripides

The wise person questions himself, the fool others. - Henri Arnold

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. - Von Clausewitz

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. - Marcus Aurelius

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. - Colette

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. - Albert Einstein

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. - Aeschylus

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. - Charlie Chaplin

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are well-dressed fools. - Sebastien Chamfort

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. - William Shakespeare

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. - William Shakespeare

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. - Samuel Butler

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness. - Sidney Hook

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

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet. - James Oppenheim

When people ask if I do my own stunts, I always answer, "Not on purpose." - Billy Bob Thornton

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself on the public. - Robert Morley

Do not correct a fool or he will hate you. Correct a wise man and he will appreciate you. - Unknown

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great. - Cher

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment. - Horace

Even a wise man knows doubt from time to time, it is the fool who allows it to rule his judgement. - Jennifer Hudock

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

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me. - Chevy Chase

That the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from heaven. - Hideki Tojo

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room. - Lisa Alther

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it. - WC Fields

I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic. - Will Estes

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. - Dale Carnegie

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it. - H L Mencken

You can always tell a real friend: when you make a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. - Laurence Peter

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. - Buddha

As a rule man is a fool,
When it's hot he wants it cool,
When it's cool he wants it hot,
Always wanting what is not. - Unknown