Quotes about fools
Søren Kierkegaard -
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
Wilkie Collins -
I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
Voltaire -
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Saurabh Sharma -
So-called intellectuals conceptualize love fools just love.Fools breathe air intellectuals (so called) breathe ego.
Josh Billings -
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
Oliver Goldsmith -
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Alcuin -
At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
Edward Young -
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
Albert Einstein -
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Mehmet Murat ildan -
The world is full of fools and foolishness the mission of every clever man is to watch the fools from a distance and develop sound plans to repair the damages created by them!
Lauren Oliver - and Raven
What glitters may not be gold and even wolves may smile and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.
Todd Stocker -
The wise pause the foolish react.
Blessin Bmj -
If wise are allowed to thinkthey do...but few dont speak!!In the case Of fools...Even if you dont allow them to think..They will Speak!
Shannon L. Alder -
I don’t argue with fools I educate.
A. Spencer -
Fools put trust in promises The wise in action.
Shannon L. Alder -
The best don’t stick around when you treat them poorly, only the desperate do.
Alexander Pope - An Essay on Criticism
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alethea Kontis - Enchanted
We are all fools blessed with the knowledge that certain events will come to pass no matter what path we take to get there. The wise ones follow their angels while they may.
Eric Temple Bell -
Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
Sonya Hartnett - Surrender
Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.
Idowu Koyenikan - Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
A genius in the wrong position could look like a fool.
Justin K. McFarlane Beau -
Most people do not want to follow a leader, they want to command the leading of a servant.
Jesikah Sundin - Transitions: Novella Collection
Secrets are foolish creatures, I have learned. No longer do I wish to play with fools.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - On Certainty
Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic
Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle
When Jim Donell thought of something to say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible, perhaps because he had very few ideas and had to wring each one dry.
Mehmet Murat ildan -
Watch the fools! Watch them carefully! Learn their paths so that you can learn how to avoid them!
Brother Andrew - The Narrow Road: Stories of Those Who Walk This Road Together
I am a fool for Christ...whose fool are you?
J.E.B. Spredemann - A Secret of the Heart
To deny the existence of God would be to close your eyes to the beauty around you, to close your ears to the symphony of nature, to close your nostrils to the scents wafting on the breeze, to close your mouth to the delicacies of nourishment, to close your hands to the feel of luxury, to close your mind to the ability to think, and to close your heart to the only love that can penetrate the depths of the soul. For in Him all things consist, in Him we live, and move, and have our being, and witho
Katherine McIntyre - Hunting for Spring
They dabbled in dark magic like finger painters in first grade art class, and then most of them were either killed by their creations or ran the other way from the nightmares they unleashed.
Anthony Liccione -
Therapy to life: Eat with the wise, and drink with the fools!
Walter Dean Myers -
Fools commit suicide and think they're doing themselves a favor.
Munia Khan -
It is hard to befool a fool who has already been fooled so many times
Shannon L. Alder -
You will never let go of the past by ignoring the most painful thing the person you loved has done to you. When you begin to minimize it, second guess yourself and others, ignore it or even pretend it didn't happen you cheat yourself out of healing. Naturally, your mind would rather believe the lies you are telling it, rather than accept the truth. The soul has a way of protecting itself from trauma, but if left in denial there is no growth or change. Healing requires going to that place you avo
Conn Iggulden - Khan: Empire of Silver
If a man has gold, he lives with the terror that someone will take it away from him, so he builds walls around it. Then everyone knows where the gold is, so they come and take it. That’s the way it always goes, brother. Fools and gold, together.
Sarah MacLean - No Good Duke Goes Unpunished
Hope was a fool’s emotion.
James Hervey Johnson -
Intelligent men do not decide any subject until they have carefully examined both or all sides of it. Fools, cowards, and those too lazy to think, accept blindly, without examination, dogmas and doctrines imposed upon them in childhood by their parents, priests, and teachers, when their minds were immature and they could not reason.
Michael Bassey Johnson -
There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former.
Orrin Woodward -
Big mouths and small brains make the strangest noises.
Benjamin Franklin -
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Shannon L. Alder -
If a man says he is Christian, yet he has no problems knocking you up, having premarital sex or living in sin with you, then you have to ask yourself, “What version of Christ does he believe in?
Criss Jami - Killosophy
As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but good versus fools who think they are good.
Benjamin Franklin - Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School
Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
Shannon L. Alder -
Silence is best reserved for the fearful and foolish.
Edward M. Wolfe - Hell on Ice
Most folks don't have but a few days to a week's worth of food in their houses at any given time. When they run out, they'll have to forage. Only the fools will forage in town. The smart ones will look on the outskirts.
Prinx Maurice -
Silence beyond being the answer to fools, is sometimes the answer of fools.
Justin K. McFarlane Beau -
The lies they've convinced their eyes that they're seeing, will not mar the truth in my lens.
Justin K. McFarlane Beau -
The ability to lie, paired with unaccountability, has made a near infinite amount of liabilities.
Ruta Sepetys - Salt to the Sea
I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.
Raheel Farooq -
World is so full of idiots that you can't even imagine to escape. The only solution is isolation. But it still spares one!
Steve Berry - The Venetian Betrayal
But heroes, at times, had to be fools.
Anonymous -
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
La Rochefoucauld -
He who lives without folly is not as wise as he thinks.
Jewish proverb -
The poor schlemiel is a man who falls on his back and breaks his nose.
Samuel Johnson -
None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
Josh Billings -
Nature never makes any blunders when she makes a fool she means it.
Robert Burton -
Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.
Adlai Stevenson -
It is said that a wise man who stands firm is a statesman and a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
Voltaire -
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
Mark Twain -
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority for any town?
Robert Louis Stevenson -
For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.
Martin Luther -
Who loves not women wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long.
George Bernard Shaw -
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.
Cree Indian proverb -
There is no chance for old fools.
Nicolas Boileau -
A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.
George Chapman -
You men think old men are fools but old men know young men are the fools.
S. L. Clemens -
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?
English proverb -
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Bible -
The fool hath said in his heart There is no God.
Moliere -
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.
Alexander Pope -
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Bible -
Even a fool when he holdeth his peace is counted wise.
James Russell Lowell -
The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman.
Goethe -
It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.
Francois Rabelais -
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking-glass.
William Shakespeare -
The fool doth think he is wise but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare -
A fool's bolt is soon shot.
William Shakespeare -
Lord what fools these mortals be!
Voltaire -
He who thinks himself wise O heavens! is a great fool.
Old saying -
A fool's head never whitens.
Bible -
For ye suffer fools gladly seeing ye yourselves are wise.
Thomas Fuller -
Many have been the wise speeches of fools though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.
Old saying -
Men trip not on mountains they stumble on stones.
Old saying -
There are bearded fools.
Elbert Hubbard -
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
St. Francis de Sales -
Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
Anatole France -
If fifty million people say a foolish thing it is still a foolish thing.
Dean William R. Inge -
There are two kinds of fools: one says 'This is old therefore it is good' the other says 'This is new therefore it is better.'
William Cowper -
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
Mark Twain -
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Charles Lamb -
Here cometh April again and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
George - Lord Halifax
A busy fool is fitter to be shut up than a downright madman.
Friedrich von Schiller -
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
Louis Armstrong -
There are some people that if they don't know you can't tell 'em.
Wilson Mizner -
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
Karl Kraus -
Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
John Dryden -
Every inch that is not fool is rogue.
Conn Iggulden - Conqueror
We are all fools with our sons. We wipe them and suckle them and all we expect is for them to be grateful to the end of their days.
Natalia Jaster - Trick
A fool is a man who believes glory can be found at the tip of a sword instead of on the tip of his tongue. That is life’s cruel trick.
Vera Nazarian - The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!