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Quotes About Fools

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.
~ Oscar Wilde
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.
~ Oscar Wilde
Sorry, he apologized. I didn't mean to inflict my rantings on you, even though we are destined to spend the rest of our lives together. I don't suppose you fave any thought to where we should be married while I was in with that lot of fools, did you? Yes, she said. I decided we shouldn't, that wartime attachments are a bad idea. Particularly if you're going to be lassoing flying bombs.
~ Connie Willis
Every time I go past a cinema and see a queue out the door, I think, look at those fools, every penny they spend is turned into profits that are used to pass laws imprisoning their own children. Can't they see?
~ Cory Doctorow
What fools men are, and what an evil thing is war.
~ Wally Lamb
Fools commit suicide and think they're doing themselves a favor.
~ Walter Dean Myers
Fools should not have chapping sticks'; that is, weapons of offence.
~ Walter Scott
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
~ Charles Lamb
Then there was a disturbance in the kitchen and he went to investigate. When he came back, he said, "It was nothing, the mop caught fire. All my employees are fools.
~ Charles Portis
Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools.
~ Charles Simmons
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.
~ Charlie Sheen
There's an old Quidneck saying about fools: The only thing worse than one of them is two of them.
~ Chet Williamson
What fools, indeed, we mortals are To lavish care upon a Car With ne'er a bit of time to see About our own machinery!
~ JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
All good knights, pilgrims, sons in search of fortune, seekers after truth, and plain ordinary fools, turn towards the city they have left and take farewell according to their nature. This is a full moment in all journeying, the time when girths are tightened in preparation for the miles that lie ahead.
~ H. V. Morton
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
~ Havelock Ellis
There are idiots in every crowd.
~ Heather Graham
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.
~ Lawrence Durrell
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves and wiser people so full of doubt.
~ Leah Wilson
That's the way it was, always will be. nothing we can do to make it different. It's a story now, and stories have endings even when you don't know- fools like me- that you're already in the middle of one, and you're already making choices... Choices that will bring you to places you'd never thought you'd be, places in your heart you'll mourn and love the rest of your life.~Mr. Dees
~ Lee Martin
Don't talk, Snicket," Theodora said. "Fools talk while wise people listen, so listen up and I'll tell you how we will solve this case sensibly and properly.
~ Lemony Snicket
Don't talk, Snicket," Theodora said. "Fools talk while wise people listen, so listen up and I'll tell you how we will solve this case sensibly and properly.
~ Lemony Snicket
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
~ Moliere
Don't work for fools. It's not worth it. Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.
~ Adam Savage
...I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference.
~ Charles Darwin