Advantage of an Extra Long Straw

A quiet fool is half a sage. - Yiddish Proverb

Only a fool knows everything. - Maasai Proverb

The fool wonders, the wise man asks. - Benjamin Disraeli

A fool and her money are soon courted. - Helen Rowland

That's the thing that broke the straw. - Archie Bunker

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. - Alice Walker

Obedience is the highest practical courage. - Charles H Spurgeon

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory. - Bruce Lee

There is nothing so practical as a good theory. - Kurt Lewin

Sometimes I drink water just to surprise my liver. - WC Fields

The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself. - Steve Martin

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one. - Moliere

You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think. - Talmud

That's the spirit - one part brave, three parts fool. - Christopher Paolini

When a fool has made up his mind, the market has gone by. - Spanish Proverb

First love is a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. - George Bernard Shaw

Nature never makes any blunders. When she makes a fool she means it. - Archibald Alexander

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right. - Albert Einstein

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

Any lack of confidence in the economic future of the United States is foolish. - Herbert Hoover

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

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him. - Stanislaw Jerszy Lec

A girl who thinks that a man will treat her better after marriage than before is a fool. - William C. Hall

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. - George Santayana

He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. - illiam Drummond

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success. - Bo Bennett

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

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

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men - they are far superior and always have been. - William Golding

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

The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance. - Norman Vincent Peale

Always remember money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense. - Earl Wilson

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

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get it. - Arthur Brisbane

The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams. - John Muir

Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father. - Barack Obama

May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans? I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant. - Leonard Nimoy

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear. - J.B. Morton

Thirteen roadways lead through life
To thirteen doors of death,
Homeward from foolish fears and strife
We float on failing breath. - Tao