A Quote by Silvanus P. Thompson

What one fool can do another can.

Silvanus P. Thompson

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Another Fool

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Silvanus P. Thompson
Engineer
June 19, 1851 - June 12, 1916

April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.

Ambrose Bierce

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

Harold MacMillan

Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.

Robert Breault

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

Oscar Wilde

Only a fool makes threats, and only another fool feels threatened.

Paulo Coelho

A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest, A motley fool! a miserable world! As I do live by food, I met a fool Who laid him down and basked him in the sun And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, and yet a motley fool.

William Shakespeare

Perhaps there is a reason that there is no fool piece on the chessboard. What action, a fool? What strategy, a fool? What use, a fool? Ah, but a fool resides in a deck of cards, a joker, sometimes two. Of no worth, of course. No real purpose. The appearance of a trump, but none of the power: Simply an instrument of chance. Only a dealer may give value to the joker.

Christopher Moore

[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.

David Lloyd George

You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.

Whitney Houston

An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!

Richard P. Feynman

The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.

Gautama Buddha

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

Moliere

Fool you once, you are forgiven. Fool you twice, you're just a fool.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.

William Wycherley

You have to learn what makes this or that Sammy run. For one it's a pat on the back, for another it's eating him out, for still another it's a fatherly talk, or something else. You're a fool if you think as I did as a young coach, that you can treat them all alike.