21. A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
22. Wise men learn by other mens mistakes, fools by their own.
23. Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be so.
24. For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
25. A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
26. Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?
27. Dont approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
28. A fool may be known by six things: anger without cause; speech without profit;
change without progress; inquiry without object; putting trust in a stranger; and
mistaking foes for friends.
29. Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.
30. Silence is the wit of fools.
31. The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
32. If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.
33. Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
34. Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
35. You don't have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool enough to get elected.
36. The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
37. Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
38. Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
39. Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
40. Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
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