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Quotes About Fools

I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
The silver swan, who living had no note,When death approached unlocked her silent throat;Leaning her breast against the reedy shore,Thus sung her first and last, and sung no more:Farewell, all joys; O death, come close mine eyes;More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise.
~ Anonymous
The discourse of fools is irksome.
~ Anonymous
For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
~ Anonymous
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
~ Heinrich Heine
I feel like the fools who dream and who take risks are the ones who change the world.
~ Jimmy Gomez
Polanski is a great film director - although the much-acclaimed 'Chinatown' has a muddled script - but his true talent is to make fools of his friends.
~ Richard Cohen
Comedy characters that take themselves very seriously, but are actually fools, is so funny.
~ Natasia Demetriou
President Biden has gotten away his entire career with bending the truth and taking people for fools.
~ Miranda Devine
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
~ Voltaire
Only fools and the dead are content.
~ Francine Rivers
What am I to do with you? Redd asked. M-maybe you could- Jack began. The Cat raised a paw. I know. It was a rhetorical question, fools! You don't answer it! Since when do I need help making anyone suffer?
~ Frank Beddor
I was heading for the city in the south, of which they used to say in our village: 'There are people for you! Just think—they never go to sleep!' 'And why don't they?' 'Because they're fools.' 'Don't fools get tired, then?' 'How could fools get tired?
~ Franz Kafka
I was making for that city in the south of which it was said in our village: There you'll find queer folk! Just think, they never sleep! And why not? Because they never get tired. And why not? Because they're fools. Don't fools get tired? How could fools get tired!---Children on a Country Road, Contemplation.
~ Franz Kafka
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I've never been a big fan of making telepathy to the audience. That would be too much a wink in the eye. That would make people around me fools, right?
~ Mads Mikkelsen
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.
~ Harvey Mackay
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
~ Lord Byron
Tis the Fate of All Gotham-Quarrels, when Fools go together by the Ears, to have Knaves run away with the Stakes.
~ Roger L'Estrange
We have a tradition in Tibet. Sacred craziness. Men and women who act in a strange way. People think they are fools, but their wisdom, in fact, is more than those we call normal.
~ Roland Merullo
By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.
~ Ron Fournier
Absolute confidence or clarity is the privilege of fools and fanatics.
~ Ronald Dworkin
On the journey to self discovery be grateful for the fools along the way. Their lack of kindness fueled your success ~bns
~ Bluenscottish
The women advised long walks. They told the wife to watch the sun rise and set, to look for solace in the natural world, though they admitted there was no comfort to be found in the world and they would all be fools to expect it.
~ Amy Hempel