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Quotes About Fools

Here she comes i' faith full sail, with her fan spread and streamers out, and a shoal of fools for tenders.—Ha, no, I cry her mercy!
~ William Congreve
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
~ William Congreve
Cuando aparece en el mundo un verdadero genio, se lo puede reconocer por esta señal: todos los necios se conjuran contra él».
~ David Foenkinos
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
~ David Gerrold
To watch. To wait. To wonder at a world in chaos,' the girl said. 'And hope one day you fools might learn.
~ David Hewson
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. —Marcus Tullius Cicero
~ David Ignatius
God in his goodness sent the grapes To cheer both great and small; Little fools will drink too much And great fools none at all!
~ Walter Scott
You know the expression 'God protects fools and drunks'? I qualify for both.
~ Lou Reed
God always looks after the fools and — and the United States.
~ Otto von Bismarck
Why did God make so many dumb fools and Democrats?
~ William Powell
We see God and the devil making fools of each other, and we nurture in ourselves the absolutely unshakable conviction that both of them are drunk.
~ Frank Wedekind
Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.
~ Wes Smith
Fools are the gift of the God to glorify the wise!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.
~ Giacomo Casanova
There are some very good people in television, but a lot of fools running it.
~ Philip Glenister
The three greatest fools (majaderos) of history have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote - and I!
~ Simon Bolivar
History, history! We fools, what do we know or care.
~ William Carlos Williams
Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.
~ Kate Morton
History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
~ Ambrose Bierce
History n: an account mostly false of events mostly unimportant which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves and soldiers mostly fools.
~ Ambrose Bierce
There are so many fools in the world for the devil to operate upon, it gives him the advantage oftentimes.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.