Quotes About Fools

There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.

May be we are not such fools as we look. But though we be, we are well content, so long as we may be two fools together.

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools.

Custom is the law of fools.

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.

The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.

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.

There are enough fools in Washington to destroy the country without any help from Muslim terrorists.

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

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.

Rush Limbaugh is good for the party. Drive it all the way down, take it down as low as it can go, make complete fools of themselves, because it's always darkest before the dawn, and then maybe a moderate can come in and rescue them.

Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools.

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.

Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that they manipulate the world by pussy power and gentle cajolery are fools. It is slavery to have to adopt such tactics.

Wise men change, fools stay the same.

More fools know Jack Fool than Jack Fool knows.

The most trying fools are the bright ones.

Travel is a fools paradise.

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

In marriage we have a duty to God, our spuses, the world, and future generations. But we are sinners. A husband and wife need to acknowledge that when the Bible speaks of fools, it is not just speaking about other people, but about them as well. Even the wisest among us has moments of folly. So God gives us spouses to serve as wise friends by praying with and for us, attending church with us, speaking truth, and providing Scripture along with good books and online classes, lectures, and sermons to nourish fruitfulness in our lives.

Only fools don't contradict themselves

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

Fools make news, and wise men carry it.

Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.

Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!

I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools.

The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.

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.

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

Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.

The disciples had nothing to gain by lying and starting a new religion. They faced hardship, ridicule, hostility, and martyr's deaths. In light of this, they could never have sustained such unwavering motivation if they knew what they were preaching was a lie. The disciples were not fools and Paul was a cool-headed intellectual of the first rank. There would have been several opportunities over three to four decades of ministry to reconsider and renounce a lie.

I believe what Jesus said, but Jesus never said priests couldn't be fools.

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

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

Maybe we're the fools, for thinking we know things. Maybe humans are the only ones who can deal with the fact that nothing can ever be known at all.

Niggas frown when you up and smile when you down. And when you change for the better, shife fools stop comin' around.

Christians believe themselves to be the aristocracy of heaven upon earth, they are admitted to the spiritual court, while millions of men in foreign lands have never been presented. They bow their knees and say they are 'miserable sinners,' and their hearts rankle with abominable pride. Poor infatuated fools! Their servility is real and their insolence is real but their king is a phantom and their palace is a dream.

You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children.

Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.

Players with high character get better. Players with a serious approach get better. The fools never get better

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

This may come as a shock to some of you, but I have a slightly volatile personality. I don’t suffer fools well.

God cannot save them from fools.

Sometimes we even have to risk making fools of ourselves.