Fieldstone Magzine April 2013

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Quotes About Fools.. Most April Fool’s Day pranks can turn even the grumpiest person’s frown upside down. But remember, it’s always funny until someone looses an eye – or something like that. As “foolish” as these quotes are, the wisdom they impart just might make you smile. Thanks to Peter Alderman and Wilstar.com for these little April Fool’s gems.

[Politicians] never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge. – Thomas Reed

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

It’s better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and leave no doubt. – Mark Twain

– Herbert Spencer

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him. – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

– François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

– Elizabeth Gaskell

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. – Mark Twain

– William Blake

It is better to be a fool than to be dead. – Stevenson

A fool must now and then be right by chance. – Cowper

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