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Fools

 A fool must now and then be right by chance. 
Anonymous
 Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony. 
Robert Benchley (1889-1945)
 Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. 
Robert J. Hanlon
 He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. 
Anonymous
 Hitchen's Razor: What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. 
Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)
 I'm not denying that women are foolish; God Almighty made them to match the men. 
George Eliot (1819-1880)
 It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. 
Κέρδιστον εὖ φρονοῦντα μὴ φρονεῖν δοκεῖν.
Aeschylus (525 BCE-456 BCE)
 It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. 
Anonymous
 Never call a man a fool. Borrow from him. 
Anonymous
 Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. 
Anonymous
 Silence is the virtue of fools. 
Francis Bacon (1909-1992)
 Silence is the wit of fools, and one of the virtues of the wise. 
Le silence est l'esprit des sots
Et l'une des vertus du sage.
Bernard de Bonnard (1744-1784)
 Some old men, by continually praising the time of their youth, would almost persuade us that there were no fools in those days; but unluckily they are left themselves for examples. 
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
 Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. 
Euripides (484 BCE-406 BCE)
 Temptation laughs at the fool who takes it seriously. 
Anonymous
 The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. 
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
 The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. 
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
 The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools. 
Anonymous
 The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. 
George Santayana (1863-1952)
 There are more fools in the world than there are people. 
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
 When you're arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing. 
Anonymous
 Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. 
Samuel Palmer (1805-1881)
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