Quotes About Fools

An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were.

even damn fools can accomplish something now and then.

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

Loyalty, he stated, ineffably gentle. A quality honoured by sages and fools, by which humankind finds the courage to trample the reflex for self-preservation.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

We did make fools of ourselves, but people were into it.

So many people pretended interest in one thing while truly seeking to benefit their own desires. She was thankful she'd learned early on about the games people played and the falsehoods of fools.

This may come as a shock to some of you, but I have a slightly volatile personality. I don't suffer fools well.

Stephen writhed his neck round, directing a grim look at the young man: all his professional life ashore had been haunted by these vile messengers; innumerable concerts, theatres, operas, dinners, promised treats had been wrecked or interrupted by fools, mooncalves, who, to gain some private end, had broken a leg, had fits, or fallen into a catalepsy.

If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with fools. 43

There are only fools who believe that art is a serious matter.

We were fools and now we were driving to our deaths in a rental car. Janet Jackson was tinkling from the speakers, asking what we had done for her as of late

Such people there are living and flourishing in the world - Faithless, Hopeless, Charityless: let us have at them, dear friends, with might and main. Some there are, and very successful too, mere quacks and fools: and it was to combat and expose such as those, no doubt, that Laughter was made

This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.

Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

More fools know Jack Fool than Jack Fool knows.

Jesters do oft prove prophets.

Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.

Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called 'fools'.

How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!

The more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

What is a traitor? Lady Macduff: Why, one that swears and lies. Son: And be all traitors that do so? Lady Macduff: Everyone that does so is a traitor, and must be hanged. Son: Who must hang them? Lady Macduff Why, the honest men. Son: Then the liars and swearers are fools; for there are liars and swearers enow to beat the honest men, and hang up them.

What time o' day? ROSALINE: The hour that fools should ask.