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Quotes About Fools

Humanity is a parade of fools and I'm at the front, twirling a baton
~ Dean Koontz
with high cognitive ability, to one degree or another, were often fools and should embrace their foolishness rather than deny it.
~ Dean Koontz
Utopias, after all, are sought mostly by great fools, though also by dangerous charlatans, and more death and pain has been brought down on humanity by the pursuit of a perfect world than by all other crime combined.
~ Dean Koontz
They do say that God protects fools—but I think even the Almighty will lose patience now and then.
~ Diana Gabaldon
William coughed and broke the seal. As usual, the note occupied less than a page and included neither salutation nor closing, Uncle Hal's opinion being that since the letter had a direction upon it, the intended recipient was obvious, the seal indicated plainly who had written it, and he did not waste his time in writing to fools. Adam
~ Diana Gabaldon
Only Fools made the sound
~ Unknown
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
~ J. K. Rowling
I have always maintained that excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work. —Charles Darwin
~ Daniel Coyle
Give fools the first and women the last word.
~ Unknown
just as soon as I hear that hell is freezing over and has opened up a skating rink for fools.
~ Louise Rennison
Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.
~ Unknown
What fools these mortals be.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
~ Unknown
In retrospect all fools become wise.
~ Ludwig von Mises
The wise shall inherit glory, but shame shall be the promotion of fools.'" (Prov. 3:35)
~ John Bunyan
Seeing, then, that God prefers his religion; seeing God prefers a tender conscience; seeing they that make themselves fools for the kingdom of heaven are wisest; and that the poor man that loveth Christ is richer than the greatest man in the world that hates him; Shame, depart, thou art an enemy to my salvation!
~ John Bunyan
He that has no fools, knaves nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.
~ Thomas Fuller
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.
~ Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.
~ Eric Gill
Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.
~ Peter J. Carroll
You are sure that you are right but you don't want everyone to think as you do. There is no truth without fools.
~ Don DeLillo
We're steeped in gruesomely humorous ambiguity, a spectacle of ridiculous people doing awful things to total fools.
~ Don DeLillo
Experience," says the proverb, "is a hard school to attend, but fools will learn in no
~ J.C. Ryle