#fools

You will rarely make wise decisions if you surround yourself with fools ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#being-wise #decision-making #fools #friendship #rasheed-ogunlaru-quotes

Alvin smiled back, and kissed her. "People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That's nothing. We name them. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#counting #fools #funny #funny

Most folks don't have but a few days to a week's worth of food in their houses at any given time. When they run out, they'll have to forage. Only the fools will forage in town. The smart ones will look on the outskirts. ↗

— Edward M. Wolfe

#food #food-storage #fool #fools #forage

Compromise is a stalling between two fools. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#foolishness #fools #humor #humor

To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one! ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#exceptions #fool #fools #idiot #idiots

Even if lifelong A fool attends upon a wise man, He no more knows dhammas Than a spoon knows the flavours of soup. Even if for a moment An intelligent man attends upon a wise man, He quickly knows dhammas As the tongue knows the flavours of soup. ↗

— Anonymous

#fools #intelligence #vv- #intelligence

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#depression #efforts #entails #fear #fools

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#fools #men

Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men. ↗

— Marcus Porcius Cato

#fools #politics #wisdom #men

Fools talk, cowards silence , wise men listen ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#listen #teach #men