Quotes About Foolishness

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

Folly is the cloak of knavery.

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism--unless the criticized isn't within earshot.

Victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

I've done what I could; a man that can live as lone as I have and not know when to quit is a fool.

The folly isn't mine. It's God's folly. Even in the old days he never asked men to do what was reasonable.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been.

The village boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattleskulled clodpated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed boys.

Mystery Epidemic of Imbecility.

Good fortune is a benefit to the wise, but a curse to the foolish.

An angry man is always a stupid man.

Only half-wits can stumble into such enormities.

To think that the wise are not capable of folly is not wise.

And thus love makes fools of us all.

Stupid is you can't learn, ignorant is you haven't learned yet.

If you act your faith, you may look foolish for five minutes; but if you don't act your faith, you may be foolish forever.

We all are weak, in one way or another. It does not matter the species. Some times that weakness is a strength in dusguise. Sometimes it is our utter undoing. Some times it is both. A wise man seeks to find a lesson from it. A fool lets it control and destroy him. And sometimes the wise man is the fool.

It is a fool who repeats the same actions expecting a different outcome.

The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him.

Sometimes it's more terrible and more stupid to sit, paralyzed, as events slip past you. A certain kind of guardian angel must watch over fools as they rush in.

Perhaps I have made a mistake, but Heaven knows I have been faithful to my marriage vows." She chuckled, "The more fool you!

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?