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Only a fool knows everything. - Maasai Proverb

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

A fool and his money are soon parted. - English Proverb

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

Pedestrian: a man whose son is home from college. - Unknown

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

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. - Jonathan Swift

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

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

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

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

Kids are life's only guaranteed bona fide upside surprise. - Jack Nicholson

A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. - Latin Proverb

A fellow who is always declaring he’s no fool usually has suspicions. - Wilson Miznor

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

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

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. - Thomas Henry Huxley

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. - Benjamin Franklin

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

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. - Unknown

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

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

For courage mixed with prudence is not foolish,
And moderation betters recklessness. - Song of Roland

If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college. - Sargent Shriver

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. - Clive James

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Groucho Marx

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. - P.J. O'Rourke

He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you, he really is an idiot. - Groucho Marx

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

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

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

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. - Flannery O'Connor

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

My son really has the spirit of Valentine's Day. When he was in college, he used to send his mother a heart-shaped box of laundry. - Milton Berle

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. - Theodore Roosevelt

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense. - Joseph Addison

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

I was thrown out of college during my freshman year, for cheating on my metaphysics final - I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me. - Woody Allen