Fools and Wise

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
Cato the Elder

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Charles Caleb Colton

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
Charles Caleb Colton

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
Confucius

Who are a little wise the best fools be.
John Donne

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
Norman Douglas

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
John Dryden

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

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

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.
Benjamin Franklin

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Thomas Fuller

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth Gaskell

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Balthasar Gracian

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men — and the fools know it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Even a fool may be wise after the event.
Homer

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
Thomas Huxley

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Karl Kraus

One fool can ask more questions in a minute than twelve wise men can answer in an hour.
Nikolai Lenin

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.
Plato
Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
John Ray

The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
Unknown

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Unknown

Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.
Oscar Hammerstein II

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake

Wise men learn by other men’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
John Dalberg Acton

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Canada and Canadian

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization. Adrienne Clarkson
We only need to look at what we are really doing in the world and at home and we’ll know what it is to be Canadian. Adrienne Clarkson

Stumbling through darkness and racing through light, we have persisted in the creation of a Canadian civilization. Adrienne Clarkson
Patriotism is not dying for one’s country, it is living for one’s contry. And for humanity. Perhaps that is not as romantic, but it’s better. Agnes Macphail
I’m no lady. I’m an MP. Agnes Macphail
Canadians can be radical, but they must be radical in their own peculiar way, and that way must be in harmony with our national traditions and ideals. Agnes MacPhail
Canada? I don’t even know what street it’s on. Al ‘Scarface’ Capone
Until I came to Canada I never knew ‘snow’ was a four letter word. Alberto Manguel
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. Alexander Graham Bell
Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before. Alexander Graham Bell
The term “eh?”- pronounced like a long A – is usually affixed to every sentence out of a Canadian’s mouth, from the sublime (“I love you, eh?”) to the ridiculous (Let’s get married, eh?”) and everything in between (“Gimme a pack of Export, eh?”) Allan Gould
It’s going to be a great country when they finish unpacking it. Andrew H. Malcom
We’ll explain the appeal of curling to you if you explain the appeal of the National Rifle Association to us. Andy Barrie
The crisis of Canada today is the combination of economic problems facing us and the increasing impotency of governments that lack either the will or the resources to do much about it. The tragedy of Canada today is that just when we need a country that’s pulling together in common cause, we have one that keeps finding new ways to pull itself apart. Angus Reid
God Bless America, but God help Canada to put up with them! Anonymous
What is a Canadian? A Canadian is a fellow wearing English tweeds, a Hong Kong shirt and Spanish shoes, who sips Brazilian coffee sweetened with Philippine sugar from a Bavarian cup while nibbling Swiss cheese, sitting at a Danish desk over a Persian rug, after coming home in a German car from an Italian movie… and then writes his Member of Parliament with a Japanese ballpoint pen on French paper, demanding that he do something about foreigners taking away our Canadian jobs. Anonymous
Canada is like your attic, you forget that it’s up there, but when you go, it’s like “Oh man, look at all this great stuff!” Anonymous
Canada is like a bird, it likes to soar freely Anonymous
Give me a good canoe, a pair of Jibway snowshoes, my beaver, my family and ten thousand square miles of wilderness and I am happy. Archie Belaney (Grey Owl)
Canada has never been a melting-pot; more like a tossed salad. Arnold Edinborough

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