Cocoon Stage

A quiet fool is half a sage. - Yiddish Proverb

Lose your cool - play the fool. - W. Andrew Welker

Architects are practical poets. - Unknown

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

Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune. - Lady Murasaki

Any fool can know. The point is to understand. - Albert Einstein

I've won at every level, except college and pro. - Shaquille O'Neal

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

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

Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him? - Obi Wan Kenobi

Those who go to college and never get out are called professors. - George Givot

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

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

The best way to convince a fool he is wrong is to let him have his way. - Josh Billings

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. - Alexandre Dumas

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

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

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. - Robert M. Hutchins

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

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

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

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

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness. - Cicero

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

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

Start a huge, foolish project like Noah. It makes absolutely no difference what people think of you. - Rumi

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

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. - Robert Frost

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. - Peter Ustinov

The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see. - Huang-Po

God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she might love him. - Tara Reid

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

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

Nothing is a surprise to God; nothing is a setback to His plans; nothing can thwart His purposes; and nothing is beyond His control. - Joni Eareckson Tada

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