Fools Quotes

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

Wise, Made, She

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

Song, Satire, Theme

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
Thomas Fuller

Change, Weather, Discourse

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Alexander Pope

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
Anton Chekhov

Nothing, Everything, Understand

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Fear, Angels, Rush

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
E. M. Forster

Fate, Perhaps, Sign

Silence is the wit of fools.
Anatole France

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
Josh Billings

Fun, Living, Profit

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.
Spiro T. Agnew

Women, May, Difficult

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

Ignore, Avoid, Suffer

Fools are without number.
Desiderius Erasmus

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
Simone Weil

Nothing, Cannot, Dead

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

Poetry, Saying, Two

I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.
Rush Limbaugh

Real, Here, Making

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
William Congreve

Time, Business, Wisdom

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
Charles Caleb Colton

Religion, Her, Ghost

Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
Zhuangzi

True, Realize, Folly

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
Jean Paul

Beauty, Great, Study

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
Doug Larson

Young, Old, Become

If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.
Ben Stein

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
Bodhidharma

Nature, Time, Practice

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
Angela Carter

Whole, Everybody, Illusion

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

Good, Stupidity, Cannot

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
E. T. Bell

Time, After, Makes

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer

Men, Result, Ultimate

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Havelock Ellis

Men, Wisdom, Door

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.
Thornton Wilder

Life, Alone, Fool

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.
Robert Benchley

Makes, Drinking, Begin

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