What is wealth? A dream of fools.
Abraham Cahan

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
Russell Baker

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
William Shakespeare

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

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
Horace

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

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles Spurgeon

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.
Anacharsis

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Benjamin Franklin

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato

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

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

Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
Thomas Hobbes

Words are the money of fools.
Thomas Hobbes

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.
Thomas Hobbes

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.
William Alexander

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
Giacomo Casanova

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

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