Mouse Trick

Architects are practical poets. - Unknown

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

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

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

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. - Arabic proverb

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

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

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable. - Tin Man

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

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling. He who makes one is a fool. - F.M. Knowles

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool. - Epicurus

He who will always be his own lawyer will often have a fool for a client. - J Hunter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it. - Maurice Switzer

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

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

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

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

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool. - Jonathan Swift

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

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. - Kurt Vonnegut