It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools


Spanish Proverb

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Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO
Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
CATO (MARCUS PORCIUS CATO "THE ELDER") (A/K/A CATO THE CENSOR)
If fools didn't talk, there wouldn't be wise men to listen and laugh.
EPHDAN
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 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
A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.”

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ALVIN TOFFLER
Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
BIBLE
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
Anyone can learn how to communicate with animals if they are open to the process and willing to prac...
KAREN A. ANDERSON
Wise men and fools cannot exist without the other. If there are no wise men, there are no fools, and...
SIDDHARTH KONKIMALLA
Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb Lawless are they th...
SPANISH PROVERB
37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON
To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools.
ANONYMOUS
Fools look to tomorrow, wise men use tonight.
UNKNOWN
Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight
SCOTTISH PROVERB
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
The mistakes of the wise are better than the wisdom of fools.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.
Wise man learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
CATO THE CENSOR
The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. Wisdom is...
THE BIBLE
Drowning his misery with alcohol and junk food was like sticking plaster on an infected cut. It mask...
JAY NORTHCOTE
It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal
AFRICAN PROVERBS
Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.
ANACHARSIS
Fools talk, cowards silence , wise men listen
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN
Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.
ANACHARSIS ANACHARSIS
Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.
ANACHARSIS
Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence
WILL HENRY
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
Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN
At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
ALCUIN (ALBINUS)
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS
Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
ALCUIN
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Wise men make proverbs but fools repeat them
SAMUEL PALMER
Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN
Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
PROVERB
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
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY
Life with fools consists in drinking; with the wise man, thinking.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelso...
BUDDHA
if you laugh at pain than pain will laugh back so be wise about how you deal with pain
DELESHA SHANTAE BUFORD
If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to ...
LARRY MCMURTRY
Better to feel nothing, to be numb, than to lose control. It's the only way I know to deal with it.
JULIE KAGAWA
Getting on with her life is important. But right now it may be more important to put the feelings ou...
JENNIFER BROWN
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
GOLDA MEIR
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
GOLDA MEIR
Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
ELINOR BURKETT
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
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
THOMAS HUXLEY
The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all.
LALAH DELIA
Oh, Mona, we're all damned fools! Some of us just have more fun with it than others. Loosen up, dear...
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN
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
PLATO
Godliness with contentment is rare.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Shallow men speak of the past; wise men of the present and fools of the future
MADAME MARIE DU DEFFAND
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. -Golda Mei...
GOLDA MEIR
Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.
THOMAS PAINE
Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan...
MARGARET MITCHELL
In the religious life it is possible to commit an analogous error, and to prize so unwisely peaceful...
ALEXANDER MACLAREN
It is God's giving if we laugh or weep
SOPHOCLES
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
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
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
DOUGLAS BADER
Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.
THOMAS FULLER
It's not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring. -Spanish proverb.
SPANISH PROVERB
His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Laugh till you weep. Weep till there’s nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it’...
FREDERICK BUECHNER
Better ride safe in the dark, says the proverb, than in the daylight with a cut-throat at your elbow
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
GOLDA MEIR
If silence be good for the wise, how much better for fools
THE TALMUD
Logical consequences are the scare-crows of fools and the beacons of wise men
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me.
GERALDO RIVERA
Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
BOB DYLAN
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to...
KHALIL GIBRAN
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to...
KAHLIL GIBRAN
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
It's the old proverb: 'It is better to give than to receive.' Without knowing it, I had brought alon...
ETHAN ZOHN
The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts and questions, while fools are so certai...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Of learned Fools I have seen ten times ten, Of unlearned wise men I have seen a hundred
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When you become self aware, you know your uniqueness, strengths, and limitations too. You become eas...
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD
Why be an ostrich?
MARGARET MITCHELL
To be fully alive, you need time with God to recharge.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Everyone gets scared at times. It's only the fools who won't admit it.
JENNIFER A. NIELSEN
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
It is better to deal with the devil we know than the devil we don’t know.
VIKRANT PARSAI

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