Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.
Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.
Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.
Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.
Common sense is one of the most unused commodities available to man.
It is wise to buy acquaintances, but foolish to buy friends.
If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool.
I will love to be called a foolish man of peace, than to be named a wise man of war. Show me your weapons of war and I will show you my Bible of peace!
Sometimes we are that fly in the house, that thinks it sees an open window. So it crawls to, or flies head-on into clear glass. At times getting stuck between the storm and pane, it dies in the window...
A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.
No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.