Fools make Feasts, and wise Men eat them.
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Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1745) : Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.Thomas Fuller (writer)
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Fools make researches and wise men exploit them—that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools.
H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Those who have a lively imagination are a great deal more pleased with themselves than the wise can reasonably be. They look down upon men with haughtiness; they argue with boldness and confidence, others with fear and diffidence; and this gaiety of countenance often gives them the advantage in the opinion of the hearers, such favor have the imaginary wise in the eyes of judges of like nature. Imagination cannot make fools wise; but she can make them happy, to the envy of reason which can only make its friends miserable; the one covers them with glory, the other with shame. What but this faculty of imagination dispenses reputation, awards respect and veneration to persons, works, laws, and the great? How insufficient are all the riches of the earth without her consent! 82
Blaise Pascal
Wise men make proverbs. Fools repeat them.
Anonymous
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Michel de Montaigne
Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
Bob Dylan
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