Fools Quotes

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

Another, Learn, Language

There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.
Elia Kazan

Money, Doubt, Making

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

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts.
James P. Hogan

Problem, Whole, Themselves

The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly.
Kathleen Turner

Older, Less, Suffer

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
Alcuin

Men, Wise, Propose

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
George Chapman

Men, Young, Old

With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.
Glenn Close

Women, Ego, Difficult

I think when you're looking for people to interview, you want to make it fair and honest. You're not just bringing people on so you can beat them up or, you know, make fools out of them or something.
Walter Isaacson

Honest, Looking, Fair

A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
Carl T. Rowan

Group, Minority, Arrived

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

Fear, Rush, Tread

All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?
Prince

Why, Tell, Attention

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

Rather, Kids, King

Fortune, that favors fools.
Ben Jonson

Fortune, Favors

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

Envy, May, Praise

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.
Franz Grillparzer

Human, However, Indeed

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

Friends, Themselves, Beyond

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

Great, Fear, Means

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
John Tillotson

Men, Wise, Among

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
Isaac D'Israeli

Wise, Repeat, Proverbs

We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
Ralph Bunche

Fight, Everything, Country

God looks out for fools and babies.
Meshell Ndegeocello

God, Looks, Babies

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.
Anacharsis

Men, Wise, Decide

The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!
Alex Trebek

Money, Reason, College

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

Change, Cannot, Both

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

Great, Hate, Blessings

What is wealth? A dream of fools.
Abraham Cahan

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
Barbara Smith

Women, Black, Group

I was convinced that acting was for fools. I was on the stage when I was eight with my father, he was playing one of those Greek blind guys that sees things and warns people, whilst I was in a blue skirt. I think there were 5,000 people in the theatre, it was ridiculous.
Rutger Hauer

Father, Acting, Playing

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

School, Dance, Kids

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