Quotes About Fools

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

for men never know a loving woman's heart. Poor fools we are, ruled by the moon, and variable, prone to her waxing and waning, all our tides sorrow and gladness. Men never know a woman's love.

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.

All that happens is as habitual and familiar as roses in spring and fruit in the summer. True too of disease, death, defamation, and conspiracy—and all that delights or gives pain to fools.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.

memory is desperate to leave us. Memory knows that we cannot endure its company. Memory would reduce us to fools.

Who were the men who did this? Guido demanded suddenly. Tonio was putting on his cloack. He looked up as if already in deep thought. Fools, he answered, at the command of a coward. page 139

The wisdom of peasants shows itself in their ability to pretend that they are fools.

What fools these mortals be. (Acheron)

Those who endlessly praise the rank of martyrdom must first attain that rank! No invented rank is superior to the life! You stick to the life and let the fools stick to the death!

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.

Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.

Fools, their wisdom weak, are their own enemies as they go through life, doing evil that bears bitter fruit.

I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how.

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

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.

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. Do you think they sit like monks in London balancing rights and wrongs?