Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
PROVERB Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.
ANACHARSIS Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.
ANACHARSIS ANACHARSIS Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.
ANACHARSIS Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fool...
CATO THE ELDER Wise men make proverbs but fools repeat them
SAMUEL PALMER Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
CATO (MARCUS PORCIUS CATO "THE ELDER") (A/K/A CATO THE CENSOR) Wise men and fools cannot exist without the other. If there are no wise men, there are no fools, and...
SIDDHARTH KONKIMALLA Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
CATO (MARCUS PORCIUS CATO "THE ELDER") (A/K/A CATO THE CENSOR) Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
CATO THE ELDER Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
ALCUIN (ALBINUS) At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
ALCUIN In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most...
WILLIAM BLAKE Fools talk, cowards silence , wise men listen
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN Fools look to tomorrow, wise men use tonight.
UNKNOWN Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight
SCOTTISH PROVERB Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.
THOMAS HOOD Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
THOMAS FULLER Shallow men speak of the past; wise men of the present and fools of the future
MADAME MARIE DU DEFFAND The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
ISAAC D'ISRAELI The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
ISAAC DISRAELI Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
HARRY DAY Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
THOMAS HUXLEY Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
DOUGLAS BADER If fools didn't talk, there wouldn't be wise men to listen and laugh.
EPHDAN Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
JOHN TILLOTSON Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
JOHN TILLOTSON “When wise men plan for life they equally plan for death. But when fools plan for life they don't ...
DOUGLAS YEBOAH Logical consequences are the scare-crows of fools and the beacons of wise men
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence
WILL HENRY Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools
SPANISH PROVERB Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise a...
THEODOR REIK Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise a...
THEODORE REIK Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.
THOMAS FULLER Of learned Fools I have seen ten times ten, Of unlearned wise men I have seen a hundred
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Wise man learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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LEV GROSSMAN Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
PLATO Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
PLATO Wise men are instructed in reason;
Men of less understanding by experience;
The most unknowing...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Who can explain it? Who can tell you why? Fools give you reasons; Wise men never try
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II Who can explain it? Who can tell you why? Fools give you reasons; Wise men never try
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
-Plato
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AJITH FERNANDO Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
BOB DYLAN Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. (English Proverb.
UNKNOWN Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they...
SOCRATES One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. English Proverb (17th century)
ENGLISH PROVERB Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the...
FRANCIS BACON Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the...
FRANCIS BACON SR. Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become bruti...
BIBLE May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.
GEORGE CHAPMAN Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are
fools.
GEORGE CHAPMAN Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
GEORGE CHAPMAN You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
TED BAILLIEU An old cynic is a guy, who is simply telling the truth, and that gripes the hell out of leeches; the...
BOBBY W. MILLER We start as fools and become wise through experience
AFRICAN PROVERB Wise men read books about history. Strong men write them.
PIERCE BROWN Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.
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RICHARD DAVIS Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
QUINTILIAN Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish
QUINTILIAN Fools can't understand even the gist by reading repeatedly the whole book; wise could comprehend eas...
ANUJ SOMANY There is no surprise that every person’s words or thoughts have inherent voice and that clearly re...
ANUJ SOMANY One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'
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JENNIFER E. SMITH Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
EDWARD YOUNG The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything
AFRICAN PROVERB The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.
MARCUS T. CICERO Love is for fools wise enough to take a chance.
ANONYMOUS For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
BIBLE Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men ap...
BUDDHA Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.
PROVERB Fools and obstinate men make rich lawyers
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