Benjamin Franklin Fools Quotations

Life with fools consists in drinking; with the wise man, thinking.

Learn of the skilful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enought to be honest

There are no fools so troublesome as those that have wit.

We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.

Of learned Fools I have seen ten times ten, Of unlearned wise men I have seen a hundred

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.

No workman without tools,/ Nor Lawyer without Fools,/ Can live by their Rules.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart

Ever since Follies have pleas'd, Fools have been able to divert

The learned fool writes nonsense in better language that the unlearned - but it's still nonsense.