A Quote by Colin Chapman

Rules are for the obidience of fools and interpretations of smart men.

Colin Chapman

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Fools Interpretations Men Rules Smart

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Colin Chapman
English - Designer
May 19, 1928 - December 16, 1982

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

Plutarch

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

Harry Day

Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.

Winston Churchill

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

Bob Dylan

If fifty men did all the work, / And gave the price to five, / And let those five make all the rules - / You'd say the fifty men were fools, / Unfit to be alive.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.

George Crabbe

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.