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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.