Quotes About Fools

Fools make news, and wise men carry it.

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us.

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.

As long as you've got serious investors who wish to put money into football, I applaud. It proves that football is attractive. What upsets me, what I find scandalous is when clubs accept fools.

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.

People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.

Look at 'em, ' he said. 'Goddam fools.' 'Who?' said Ginnie. 'I don't know. Anybody.

I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.

The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

The greatest of fools are those who fail to mark the invisible from the nonexistent.

For forms of Government let fools contest. Whate'er is best administered is best.

Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.

Sitting around fools increases your tolerance

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

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it's decreed the people rule.