New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
James Agate

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Thornton Wilder

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
Erica Jong

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

Only fools are positive.
Moe Howard

Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.
Chi Chi Rodriguez

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

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
Patti Smith

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

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.
Dick Armey

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
Voltaire

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

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

Rush Limbaugh is good for the party. Drive it all the way down, take it down as low as it can go, make complete fools of themselves, because it's always darkest before the dawn, and then maybe a moderate can come in and rescue them.
Evan Thomas

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
Samuel Pepys

Silence is the virtue of fools.
Francis Bacon

Silence is the wit of fools.
Anatole France

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

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
King Solomon