Baltasar Gracian Quotes

A fool's bolt is soon shot.

Folly always knows the answer.

Any damn fool can be spontaneous.

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought.

I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.

When you are young, you do a lot of stupid things.

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Fools are without number.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet

... a fool

Haste is blind and improvident.

There's no law against stupid - I learned that a long time ago.

There's sacrificing for your art, and then there's just being dumb.

If people do things without thinking them through, that rubs me up the wrong way.

By their own follies they perished, the fools.

Courage and folly are cousins, or so I’ve heard.

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

Some people have more guts than brains.

Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.

Prove to me that you're no fool Walk across my swimming pool.

I guess there's just a time for doing dumb things.