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

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
Voltaire

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Niccolo Machiavelli

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

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
Frank Lloyd Wright

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

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
William Blake

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
William Blake

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles Spurgeon

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Carl Jung

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.
George W. Bush

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

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

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
Orson Welles

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
Francis Bacon