Stupidity

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little

We pay when old for the excesses of youth

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools

There are only two ways of getting on in the world either by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool

A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy, a wise man because he thinks what is easy is difficult

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense