Quotes About Fools

For Hell and the foul fiend that rules God's everlasting fiery jails (Devised by rogues, dreaded by fools), With his grim, grisly dog that keeps the door, Are senseless stories, idle tales, Dreams, whimseys, and no more.

I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

that in former ages they had been as wise as they are in this present, nay, wiser; for, said they, many in this age do think their forefathers have been fools, by which they prove themselves to be such.

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

Since the universe is stupid, it's no wonder that social Darwinism tends to support, promote and finance the evolution of fools.

You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?

A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Our ultimate focus is on Christ and His game plan for our lives. But we are fools if we are ignorant of the devil and his schemes.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? and ain't that a big enough majority in any town?

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year put together. This proves, by the numbers left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.

The trouble isn't that there are too many fools, but that the lightning isn't distributed right.

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.

God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.

Experience is a dear teacher, and only fools will learn from no other.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy

Soldiers are fools not paid enough to be fools.

If we will not learn out of the Scriptures, we must learn out of the Turk's scabbard, until we find in our hurt that Christians are not to make war or resist evil. Fools must be chased with clubs.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.