Quotes About Fools

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

Juvenal, another non-Christian writer of Rome, tells us that "fools seek revenge, philosophers forgive.

I would still be with you. But I could sleep outside, so it would not be so obvious. I do not need to attend your councils. I—' 'No. The Phthians will not care. And the others can talk all they like. I will still be Aristos Achaion.' Best of the Greeks. 'Your honor could be darkened by it." 'Then it is darkened.' His jaw shot forward, stubborn. 'They are fools if they let my glory rise or fall on this.

All heroes are fools, he liked to say. What he meant was, all heroes but me.

You fools," I said. "I am the one who made that creature. I did it for pride and vain delusion. And you thank me? Twelve of your men are dead for it, and how many thousands more to come? That drug I gave her is the strongest I have. Do you understand, mortals?

Fools are more hard to conquer than persuade.

Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn at no other.

I sometimes think we were immortal fools to start this country with a revolution. It's helped put a stamp of respectability on violence ever since.

Fools, as it has long been said, are indeed separated, soon or eventually, from their money. So, alas, are those who, responding to a general mood of optimism, are captured by a sense of their own financial acumen. Thus it has been for centuries; thus in the long future it will also be.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

All our yesterdays, it is true, have only lighted fools the way to dusty death. But we need at least the dates of the yesterdays and the list of the fools.

Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.

The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.

Real people are destined to be hated and unappreciated by fools.

Life is a school those who concentrate make at last but fools are those find every reason to give excuses.

All heroes are fools, he liked to say. What he meant was, all heroes but me. So who could correct him when he erred? He had stood on the beach looking at Telegonus and believing him a pirate. He had stood in his hall and accused Telemachus of conspiracy. Two children he had had, and he had not seen either clearly. But perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.

Most men, in my experience, are fools.

Helden sind Dummköpfe, hatte ich entgegnet. Er hatte gelacht. Da sind wir uns einig.

To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools.

The gods are jealous and men are fools.

in all countries fools outnumber the rest;

Extol not riches, then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare; more apt To slacken virtue and abate her edge Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. Even so, God cannot save them from fools.

All men are fools when it comes to love,' the doctor murmured.