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Quotes About Fools

We are all fools in love.
~ Jane Austen
His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It became perfectly clear to him that he could entertain no hope of finding in someone else the same aspirations and antipathies; no hope of linking up with a mind which, like his own, took pleasure in a life of studious decrepitude; no hope of associating an intelligence as sharp and wayward as his own with any author or scholar.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
Which is why taking control of their Clan won't be a problem. Those weak fools in WindClan are so used to taking orders from ThunderClan that they'll hardly notice the difference.
~ Erin Hunter
Thar is two things that every national crisis is bound to show up: first, a lot o' dum fools in command; second, lot o great commanders in the ranks. An' fortunately before the crisis is over the hull thing is sure set right, and the men is where they oughter be.
~ Ernest Thompson Seton
GoD-the first step in learning is bowing down to GoD; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not prove he is right or they are not fools.
~ George William Russell
Toi et moi contre les imbéciles !
~ Bernard Werber
Danny-Boy, I want to tell him, unlike you flawless teenagers, we adults can be contradictory fools. We fuck up. Sorry to fall off the Pedestal of Perfection, Sonny-Jim, but all we trying a-do is stop you from fucking up too.
~ Bernardine Evaristo
With fools forbear to argue--better strive to wake the dead.
~ Bhartrhari
But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.
~ Bill Ayers
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
~ Horace
You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.
~ Guy de Maupassant
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. BERTRAND RUSSELL
~ Guy Kawasaki
May be we are not such fools as we look. But though we be, we are well content, so long as we may be two fools together.
~ R.D. Blackmore
In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure
~ George Eliot
Travellers ne'er did lie, Though fools at home condemn 'em.-Antonio
~ William Shakespeare
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.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.
~ William Ralph Inge
Astrology is a disease, not a science... It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. ... Only fools and charlatans lend value to it.
~ Maimonides
We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth.
~ Sheri S. Tepper
It is an honor to be despised by fools.
~ Shiho Inada
The more you spend time with fools, the more you adapt to their mindset and the more you stay close with the wise ones, is the more you empower yourself with wisdom.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
How wise are they that are but fools in love!
~ Joshua Cooke
7Knowledge begins with respect for the LORD, but fools hate wisdom and discipline.
~ Max Lucado