Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.
Samuel Pepys

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.
Holbrook Jackson

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

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.
Lawrence Durrell

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Oliver Goldsmith

The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.
C. S. Forester

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Horace

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
Bernard Baruch

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

The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public?
Thomas Chalmers

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
Mark Twain

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

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
Aldous Huxley

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell

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

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
Paulo Coelho

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
Isaac Disraeli