Quotes About Foolishness

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Irony is a treacherous servant; unless it's very carefully watched over, it has a tendency to expose the foolishness of its apparent master.

It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending financial debacle. After all, they and their predecessors engineered the approaching tsunami. As the situation becomes direr, the federal government's actions will grow more oppressive.

It's a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck.

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue

At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass.

Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.

A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.

April Fools' is the only day to take people seriously.

An ignorant man who is regarded as knowledgeable by people who are more ignorant than him is still ignorant.

Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.

All humans learn from each other's mistakes. Intelligent humans learn how to avoid them, idiots how to do them.

Werewolves and silver bullets!" Shakespeare coughed a quick laugh and shook his head. "Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.

In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair . . . in short, the period was so far like the present period . . . .

A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger one.

To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.