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Quotes About Fools

The biggest fools are those who are paid to be wise.
~ Proverb
The coroner and the lawyer grow fat on the quarrels of fools.
~ Proverb
The praise of fools is censure in disguise.
~ Proverb
The wise makes proverbs, and fools repeat them.
~ Proverb
Fools follow lockdown rules, wear masks, take covid jab, force others to be like them, fear virus which does not exist and spread fake things heard from the media news
~ Proverb World
Fools have no interest in understanding; they only want to air their own opinions.
~ Proverbs
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish
~ Quintilian
Impatience makes fools of clever men...
~ R. A. Scotti
I never, ever, saw the evil Steve Jobs. He was always the most well-mannered and respectful guy I knew. And we got to be pretty good friends. He didn't suffer fools gladly. I guess he didn't think I was a fool.
~ Nolan Bushnell
I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.
~ Joshua Jackson
The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly.
~ Kathleen Turner
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
Don't laugh at fools. Some are His.
~ Ralph Ellison
The formal announcement of a new word (post truth) in 2016 has shown the Bible to be true, an incredible unintended consequence. The Scriptures tell us that professing ourselves to be wise we have actually become fools; that the lie by which we live, in turn, lands us in death.
~ Ravi Zacharias
There are more kinds of fools than one can guard against.
~ Joseph Conrad
Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever – even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head and no body.
~ Walter de La Mare
Don't be quick to get angry, because anger is typical of fools" (Ecclesiastes 7:9). But Paul points out it is possible to be angry without sin when he says, "Be angry without sinning" (Ephesians 4:26).
~ Darlene Zschech
They'll go to where the governments have gathered and make sure the world ends, even though that's not their intent. They'll carry on about finding an antidote and taking down the makeshift government. But all they'll really do is spread the virus once and for all. Make sure they finish what the sun flares started. Fools, every last one of them." Anton collapsed back into a heap on the cot, and a few seconds later the sounds of his snores filled the room.
~ James Dashner
Fools make news, and wise men carry it.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
You're so damned brilliant, said Phelim. You know everything. It's hard-set you'd be to give yourself a dull Saturday afternoon. We're all puppets—not the old Queens only, but the rest of us, man, woman and child, looking the fools of the world. [...] You have them there, on their strings, all curled tight to your littlest finger; and you little heeding as you swing them what soul you may bruise.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
and was finally sent into tax exile, which is the usual fate reserved for those who are determined to make fools of themselves in public.
~ Douglas Adams
Kam smiled as if to say, Look, fools! You think you're so smart and politically correct and all of that, but the Chinese mastered the art of jargon-twisting-to-get-what-you-want back before your sweet Jesus was a holy zygote.
~ Douglas Coupland
The wise create proverbs for fools to learn, not to repeat.
~ African Proverb
The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.
~ Agatha Christie