Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin Franklin

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
Alfred North Whitehead

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Alexander Pope

Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
Queen Christina

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

Fools are without number.
Desiderius Erasmus

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan Perlis

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
John Gay

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
Norman Ralph Augustine

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.
John le Carre

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope

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

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

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

Fortune, that favors fools.
Ben Jonson

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
Frank Dane

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
John Greenleaf Whittier

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
John Muir