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Foolishness
«Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools»
Author: Gene Brown
| About:
Foolishness
| Keywords:
account, foolproof, ingenuity, systems, take into account
«Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
| About:
Action,
Foolishness,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
apothegm, Apothegms, prevented, uttered
«For God's sake, give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Foolishness,
Intelligence
| Keywords:
Brains, sake, The Young Man, young man
«Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.»
«Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Experience,
Foolishness
«Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Foolishness
| Keywords:
direct, folly, pursuit
«Good nature without prudence, is foolishness»
Author: Proverb
| About:
Foolishness,
Nature,
Prudence
| Keywords:
foolishness, good nature, prudence
«Foolish men imagine that because judgement for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgement for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Foolishness
| Keywords:
accident, delayed, judgement, Judgement Day