Quotes About Fools

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't.

All you've got is the word of a fool dog. It's been my experience that a bloodhound is the foolishest dog that is. I don't remember of anybody ever keeping a bloodhound for a yard dog. They're such dad blasted fools.

Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!

You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es

Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.

Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.

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

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

We were fools and now we were driving to our deaths in a rental car. Janet Jackson was tinkling from the speakers, asking what we had done for her as of late

I feel there is a strong bond between artists and children and all other sacred fools.

When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time.

Why do I feel like I can't trust you anymore?' I wanted him to lash out. I wanted him to fight, to protest, to argue- to do anything but look deeper into my eyes and say, 'because the Gallagher Academy doesn't admit fools

You know the expression 'God protects fools and drunks'? I qualify for both.

Why do fools fall in love? I'll tell you why, because everybody else has simply got too much else to do.

The list of the bigots and the list of the fools are always perfectly the same list!

Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools.

Atlantis: Fabled. Mystical. Golden. Mysterious. Glorious and magical. There are those who claim that it never was. But then there are also those who think they are safe in this modern world of technology and weapons. Safe from all the ancient evils. They even believe that wizards, warriors, and dragons are long dead. They are fools clinging to their science and logic while thinking it will save them. (Thrylos)

Name and fame! to fly sublime Through the courts, the camps, the schools Is to be the ball of Time, Bandied in the hands of fools.

I always call niggas fools for wanting to learn the hard way. When I'm really the fool for tryna teach 'em. When the blinds leading the blind. You can't reach 'em. If niggas ain't as hungry as you then why feed 'em? Niggas ain't tryna be lead then why lead 'em? Having big problems with your dogs, why breed em?

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?

And thus love makes fools of us all.

No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.

Is not all the stupid chatter of most of our newspapers the babble of fools who suffer from the fixed idea of morality, legality, christianity and so forth, and only seem to go about free because the madhouse in which they walk takes in so broad a space?

I mean, you know, this idea that somebody we disagree with on economic or social policy or something we have to turn into some kind of ogre or demon, I think, is a mistake. I mean, it's like telling the American people or half the American people that don't agree with you they're all fools. That's just not true.

The most trying fools are the bright ones.

The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of holy fools and righteous thieves - the kind of imagery that Dylan's later work would explore more fully.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

Love's for fools wise enough to take a chance.

Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.

The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it's decreed the people rule.

I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools.

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.

Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs you of your skills and your judgment, and it blinds you to creative solutions. It's the best-conditioned athlete, not the most talented, who generally wins when the going gets tough.

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

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

You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?