Quotes About Fools

All I want in life is clarity, transparency, so I know who is doing what, and to whom, at all times. My only real enemies in life are liars, and they'll do everything to stop me because they want the contamination to continue, because it's comfortable for them, or completely ignorant mindless fools who believe every word they read in a daily rag.

Why, man, we are all philosophical monarchs Or natural fools.

They could die behind this door together, gasping for air, and tonight they wouldn't mind. They were majestic, transcendent, in love. They were stupid and awful and they were fools. They hated one another, but only because they sometimes hated themselves. They loved the others more than they had loved anyone before, more than they would ever love anyone else on earth, they were certain.

This war has made a mockery of the arrogant fools we were. Our brother's life ended in a second; my own hung in the balance. And from what we have all heard, you have diced with death on a number of occasions." He held out his hand, saying, "I no longer have the stomach for finer feelings that are affronted by nothing at all, have you?

If I had my wilderness, nature could be my lover. What can I do in the paved streets for my thirsty roots? I waste time. I encourage fools. I slip the vital hours into penny slot machines -- to pass time, to start my stuck wheels only love can oil.

Prejudice is the reasoning of fools.

I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.

Now that I have told you by whom you should be counseled, now will I teach you which counsel you ought to eschew. First, you must avoid the counseling of fools. For Solomon says, 'Take no counsel from a fool, because he can offer no advice but that which follows from his own desires and his own interests.' The Book says that, 'The condition of a fool is this: he easily believes evil of every person, and easily believes all goodness is in himself.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Pickering : You see, lots of the real people can't do it at all: they're such fools that they think style comes by nature to people in their position; and so they never learn. There's always something professional about doing a thing superlatively well. HIGGINS. Yes: that's what drives me mad: the silly people don't know their own silly business.

Don't you think men overrate the necessity for humoring everybody's nonsense, till they get despised by the very fools they humor?

Don't you think men overrate the necessity for humoring everybody's nonsense, till they get despised by the very fools they humor? said Lydgate, moving to Mr. Farebrother's side, and looking rather absently at the insects ranged in fine gradation, with names subscribed in exquisite writing. The shortest way is to make your value felt, so that people must put up with you whether you flatter them or not.

only fools fall in love

I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Saw a wedding in the church… and strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.