Quotes About Fools

You fools of fortune, trencher-friends, time's flies.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.

Pretend you are foolish to the foolish, and be yourself when you are alone or with others like you, because if you take the foolish seriously as your friend, you might be a fool yourself.

Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!

Lai??ez dire les ?ots, le ?avoir a ?on prix.

When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. He

Lord, what fools these mortals be! Wonder on till truth make all things plain A foolish heart, that I leave here behind I know a bank where the wild thyme blows If we shadows have offended She'd

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

You offered them physical violence, didn't you? At an age when they were too young to defend themselves. At least in the past women had a chance to fight back, if they'd cared to take it—these poor fools don't! You seem to have maimed their brains as well as their bodies!

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Why do I feel like I can't trust you anymore?' I wanted him to lash out. I wanted him to fight, to protest, to argue- to do anything but look deeper into my eyes and say, 'because the Gallagher Academy doesn't admit fools

Since a good part of my life has been wasted dealing with fools just like them, it's not worry I feel but weariness as I watch the approach of one more episode in the old, tired story of men who try to beat life, the smart ones who think they know it all and die with a look of surprise on their faces: at the final moment they always see the truth - they never really understood anything, never held anything in their hands. An old story, old and boring.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

It is essential to a politician that he should have his firmest friends among the fools, or his climbing days will soon be over.

Whenever you commend, add a compelling reason for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and the admiration of fools.

Listen, son. Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range then we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better — and the vile ones are viler, for that matter.

One of the many foolish things about the fools who compare writing about music to dancing about architecture is that dancing usually is about architecture. When bodies move in relation to a designed space, be it stage or ballroom or living room or gymnasium or agora or Congo Square, they comment on that space

New' is a word for fools in towns who think / Style upon style in dress and thought at last / Must get somewhere.