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

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

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

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Voltaire

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

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

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
Paddy Ashdown

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.
Christian Bale

It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.
Maggie Smith

Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.
Roger Mudd

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

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

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
Edward Young

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

My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.
Michelle Shocked

My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.
Salma Hayek

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.
Carroll O'Connor

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