Quotes About Fools

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

It is bad enough to see young fools, but worse to see old fools.

If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

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

A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!

But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

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.

I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.

I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.

Fortune, that favors fools.

So many, though reluctant to admit it. Shun clever men, and rather suffer fools.

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

Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.

Fools!" said the man, stamping his foot with rage. "That is the sort of talk that brought me here, and I'd better have been drowned or never born. Do you hear what I say? This is where dreams — dreams, do you understand — come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.

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

When a father is quick to lose his tempre, his sons are fools.

The ancient sages never put their teachings in a systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by talking like fools and ended by making their hearers wise.

Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs. The heaviest charge we can bring against the general texture of society is that it is commonplace. Our fancied superiority to others is in some one thing which we think most of because we excel in it, or have paid most attention to it; whilst we overlook their superiority to us in something else which they set equal and exclusive store by.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

We didn't Make this World we're just the Poor Fools who are living in it.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise.

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.

Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.

Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina

My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.

Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

It seems like I have more in common - or hit it off better - with rappers than fools that are in rock music. It was always natural for me.

The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

How many fools does it take to make up a public?

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb calls 'Black Swans' - are inevitable. Some are likely to be desperately unpleasant too

Fools live in fear, a wise man lives in strength.

We see very few people who are satisfied. They say that the only ones who are really happy are the enlightened or the fools.

Men who have sacrifice their well-being, and even their lives, for the cause of truth or the public good, are, from an empirical point of view - which scorn ("fait fi", Fr.) virtue and altruism - regarded as insane or fools; but, from a moral standpoint, they are heros who do honour ("qui honorent", Fr.) humanity.

How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns

For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content with declaring that life would not be worth living without a spark of that mysterious fire.

Children and fools speak true.

Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.

What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.

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

A true leader always feels that it's truly wise to be considered a fool by those who are not actually nice, and actually not nice to be considered a wise by those who are truly fools.

I got tiger blood man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

God cannot save them from fools.