Quotes About Fools

We are all experts and sometimes encounter limits in our fields, including those we call fools. Even the doctor can only heal the sick, but not raise the dead.

We are constantly haunted by the qualities of self-interest and that is why we struggle to refrain ourselves from making fools of our behaviours.

Women joked amongst themselves: 'Why do you think a bride cries on her wedding day? It's for the love that this marriage is putting an end to for all eternity. Men may think a woman has no past- "you were born and then I married you"- but men are fools.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

invincibility that only drunks and fools know.

The intelligent man quickly reaches reactionary conclusions. Today, however, the universal consensus of fools turns him into a coward. When they interrogate him in public, he denies being a Galilean.

Greatest fools are oft most satisfied.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

I took Sin on faith, but if faith were money, fools would be billionaires.

Every party has its criminals and its fools, because every party has its men.

Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway,And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.

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

A special Providence protects fools, drunkards, small children and the United States of America.

A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.' Quite often men are fools.

A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.' Quite often men are fools.

My mother's voice whispered in my ears. Look now to your da. If you've never seen rage on his face, you have now. Those old fools won't know what hit them.

Only priests and fools are fearless, and I've never been on the best of terms with God.

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

In this Puritan sinkhole of a culture, we don't teach children the uses of pleasure, and so they decide we are fools and go their own way, blindly. If we learned to drive as badly as we learn to make love, the roads would be nothing but wrecks.

There might not have been the heaven that so many fools advertised, but there certainly was a hell, and it smelled like blood and cold cereal and the family dog.

Although some fools find rudeness sexy, it is never the path to seduction.

They are worse than fools. They are murderous fools.

All because I was too stupid to learn from past mistakes. Just like all the other dreaming fools throughout history, wrapped up with seductive, clean equations, their simplistic, isolated elegance, giving no thought to the messy, bloody, physical application that was their ultimate reality. As if we didn't have enough weapons already. But that's human nature, we've always got to go one better, to increase the terror another notch. And for what?

Then the music. It's jazz and yet not jazz. There's something euphoric, disconnected about it. Like four instruments that have run amok. But it fools you. Because there is also a strange precision to it. Like a clown act in a circus ring. What takes the greatest precision is that it's supposed to sound like total chaos.