Fools Quotes

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Wise, Done, Same

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope

Fear, Angels, Rush

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
Charles Lamb

Here, Again, Far

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
Josh Billings

Change, Two, Opinions

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.
Og Mandino

Tomorrow, Found, Calendar

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
Aldous Huxley

Human, Actually, Majority

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
J. K. Rowling

Fear, Yourself, Depression

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Often, Company, Loss

Despair is the conclusion of fools.
Benjamin Disraeli

Despair, Conclusion

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
Charles Darwin

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
Alexander Pope

Best, Government, Whatever

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
Honore de Balzac

Nature, Society, Makes

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
Walt Whitman

Old, Behind, Front

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
Blaise Pascal

Reason, Far, Master

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
Alice Walker

Wish, Actually, Foolish

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
Ambrose Bierce

Art, Making, Gift

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
Benjamin Disraeli

Peace, Fit, Wartime

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
Horace

Try, False, Shame

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
Douglas Bader

Men, Wise, Rules

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
Honore de Balzac

Passion, Give, Youth

Silence is the virtue of fools.
Francis Bacon

Silence, Virtue

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Alexander Pope

Men, Sense, Admire

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

Live, Enough, Else

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Horace

Life, Greatest, Sometimes

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

Men, Wise, Logical

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
Horace

While, Run, Opposite

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
George Santayana

Men, Wise, Speak

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
Lord Byron

Song, Satire, Theme

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
Alexander Pope

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Michel de Montaigne

Wise, She, Lucky

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