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

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
Jean de La Fontaine

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.
Israel Zangwill

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
Billy Joel

I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
Billy Joel

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
William Hazlitt

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
William Hazlitt

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
William Hazlitt

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

I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.
Hugh Jackman

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Publilius Syrus

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
William Makepeace Thackeray

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
Saul Bellow

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Heinrich Heine

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
James A. Garfield

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
Dalton Trumbo

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