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LANGUAGE HUMOR AT ITS FINEST
Making yourself more proficient in English need not be a drag. You can actually speed up the learning process and make it fun by generously lacing it with humor—but preferably the best that the English language can offer.
In this new section, apart from giving a fixed slot to our weekly “In a Lighter Vein” pop-out humor piece in the Forum homepage, we have put together the finest of those weekly humor pop-ups since the Forum started. The best of them—collected from various sources on the web and sent in by friends—are all here, posted in the Forum under the following headings: Wordplay, On the Job, Student and School Life, and Miscellany.
So if you missed any of the best of the Forum’s weekly humor pop-ups, you can enjoy and savor them again and again here—and better still, share them with your friends!
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Quotable Quotes About Fools and Foolishness
“Fools are wise until they speak.”—Randle Cotgrave
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“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”—Douglas Adams
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“A man who cannot reason is a fool, a man who will not reason is a bigot, and a man who dare not reason is a slave.”—William Drummond
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“Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.”—Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do.”—Benjamin Franklin
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“A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.”—Nicholas Boileau
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“The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.”—Josh Billings
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“Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.”—Minna Antrim, “Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions”
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“A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.”—Lady Nancy Astor, “My Two Countries”
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“You don’t have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool enough to get elected.”—Gerald Barzan
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“The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.”—Samuel Butler
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“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”— Colette
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“Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.”—Charles Caleb Colton
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“Get the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.”— Frank Dane
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“If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”—Anatole France
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“As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.”—François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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“Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it.”—William Lamb Melbourne
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“The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he’s playing.”— Fritz Peris
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“The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.”— Jeanne-Marie Roland
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“First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.”— George Bernard Shaw, “John Bull’s Other Island”
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“No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.”—Charles Steinmetz
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“Without fools the rest of us could not succeed.”—Mark Twain
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“Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed.”—Edward Young
—From the Brain Candy Quotations Collection
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