Quotes About Fools

The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.

Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.

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.

Fools are more healthy then the so-called wise. Thy live in the moment and they know that thy are fools, so thy are not worried about what others think about them.

Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.

Oh, that," said the king with a shrug. "That isn't your honor, Costis. That's the public perception of your honor. It has nothing to do with anything important, except perhaps for manipulating fools who mistake honor for its bright, shiny trappings. You can always change the perceptions of fools.

Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which are so.

...Good leaders wait to be called and they give up their power when they are no longer needed. Selfish men and fools put themselves first and keep their power until someone throws them out. It is no good to have a way where selfish men and fools fight with each other to be leaders, while the good ones watch.

... it's always determined characters who make the greatest fools.

Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.

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

But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.

I feel I do what I love, and the fools pay me for it.

Homo sapiens Yuck You contemporary fools laugh at religious and political lies spewed by sociopaths, lies that tether you forever to poverty and mediocrity. Yet, when your ears come upon the truth, the facts of life, you hide your faces and cry, not able

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

What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.

There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The universe is trying to build bigger, better, and faster fools. So far the universe is winning.

The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.

I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world and out. I want to keep being myself and mind the work that minds me. Work is not always a hard thing that looms over your years. Sometimes, work is the gift of the world to the wanting.

Who are a little wise the best fools be.

If you listen to fools... The Mob Rules!

I've listened to Preachers, I've listened to fools. I've worshipped the dropouts, who've made their own rules.

The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

If the fools do not control the world, it isn't because they are not in the majority.

God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.

One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.

Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions. Society is very swift in its instincts, and if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you.

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.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools.

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

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

There are so many fools in the world for the devil to operate upon, it gives him the advantage oftentimes.

I hear it's better to use animal products than synthetics, which are harmful to humans and the earth... but destroying one segment of the creation to allegedly save another is the idea of fools!!!

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.

The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?

The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher, on the other hand, presents not life itself but the finished thoughts which he has abstracted from it and then demands that the reader should think precisely as, and precisely as far as, he himself thinks. That is why his public is so small.

Children and fools speak true.

This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.

It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a vegetable pest; fools and the old world supplied them all.

Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject

Men who not religious or artists are fools.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.