Quotes About Fools

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

How can there be solidarity of workers with fools like you?

No," Pablo said, dipping up another cup. "I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

In both parties there are fools at one end and crackpots at the other,' he said, 'but the great body in the middle is sound and wise.'70

All governments are made up of fools and they serve a lunatic.

the more harm happens to idiots, the greater the benefits to the judicious.

I never thought of the future as any kind of solution. The future is always the refuge of fools. It arrives, and they have to explain why it didn't arrive the way it was supposed to, or prove that this was exactly what they predicted. That's why I prefer to drink alone or with friends and wait for the past to take us into its possession. (page 122)

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

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.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

Among my friends love is a great sorrow. It has become a daily burden, a feast, a gluttony for fools, a heart's famine. We visit one another asking, telling one another. We do not burn hotly, we question the fire. We do not fall forward with our alive eager faces looking thru into the fire. We stare back into our own faces. We have become our own realities. We seek to exhaust our lovelessness.

We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone.

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office. Aesop It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

There are four varieties in society the lovers the ambitious observers and fools. The fools are the happiest.

Fools do not acknowledge God, the proud reject Him, the wise embrace Him, and the righteous worship Him.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live. The fools, the innumerable fools, take it all for granted, skate about cheerfully on the surface and never think of inquiring what's underneath.

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.

Dogs can read signals -- look at sheepdogs; they understand hand movements for left and right. Dogs are no fools, you know. He paused. Well, some are. Some dogs are truly stupid, Ulf.

The only people who think war is a glorious game are the bloody fools who've never had to be on the pointy end of it.