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Letter "F" » Foolishness
«A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends»
Author: Arabian Proverb | About: Foolishness | Keywords: foes, inquiries, inquiry, mistaking, object, profit, putting, six, speech, stranger
«As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether thy be wise or foolish»
Author: Demosthenes | About: Foolishness, Mankind, Speech, Wisdom | Keywords: cracked, proved, Speeches, The Sound, vessel
«A fool is like the big drum that beats fast but does not realize its hollowness»
Author: Malayan Proverb | About: Foolishness | Keywords: beats, drum, drummed, drumming, drum up, hollowness, the Big
«A barber learns to shave by shaving fools»
Author: Romanian Proverb | About: Foolishness, Learning | Keywords: barber, barbered, Barbers, shave, shaving
«A fool and his money are soon parted.»
Author: Thomas Tusser (Farmer, Writer) | About: Foolishness | Keywords: parted
«Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.»
Author: Edward Young (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | About: 40th birthday, Age, Foolishness, Wisdom
«By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed»
Author: African Proverb | About: Foolishness | Keywords: Be a Player, dispersed, dispersing, fool, game, learned, players, The Fool, The Time
«Beauty and folly are old companions.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | About: Beauty, Foolishness | Keywords: companions
«Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau (Essayist, Philosopher, Poet) | About: Foolishness, Rules
«As crazy as hauling timber into the woods.»
Author: Horace (Poet) | About: Foolishness, Stupidity | Keywords: hauled, hauling, haul up, Into the Woods, timber, timbered, timbers, woods
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