A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
Moliere

To marry a fool is to be no fool.
Moliere

I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
Leo Burnett

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
J. G. Ballard

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.
Maria Callas

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Laurence J. Peter

It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought.
Scipio Africanus

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
W. Somerset Maugham

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
Thomas Fuller

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
Thomas Fuller

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Thomas Fuller

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.
Thornton Wilder

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholom Aleichem

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
Helen Rowland

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
Helen Rowland

A fool and her money are soon courted.
Helen Rowland

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
Lord Chesterfield

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
William Congreve

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
Michael Korda

I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
Daniel J. Boorstin