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

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Ambrose Bierce

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
Olive Schreiner

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
Thomas Huxley

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
John Donne

I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.
Greta Scacchi

I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.
Mary Wortley Montagu

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
Wilkie Collins

I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.
Giacomo Casanova

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
Edgar Allan Poe

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.
Giacomo Casanova

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

I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.
Jack Black

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

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
Napoleon Bonaparte

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
George Santayana

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
Ted Koppel

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.
Philip Stanhope

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Doris Lessing

Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached.
Kenneth Grahame