French Proverb Quotes

Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

A certain portion of the human race / Has certainly a taste for being diddled.

I prank my manager. I tell him I've lost my passport, or I've lost my case, or I hide his case. He is so gullible, he is the most gullible person ever.

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.

Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

With foxes we must play the fox.

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.