Quotes About Foolishness

Fool me once, shame on youfool me twice, shame on mefool me thrice, I'm gonna get the frying pan!

The abbot cleared his throat. "You are all very stupid people, " he told them graciously, "and you do not know anything at all.

Expect stupid. It's everywhere.

People always say in the end you only regret the choices you didn't make but I really think you also regret the choices you were foolish enough to make.

Someone has opened the flood gates of stupidity...

I'm fascinated by idiots... Here's looking at you, kid!

If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.

Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might consider it folly to attempt.

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.

There is no sin except stupidity.

There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

A person without regrets is a nincompoop.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.

Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.

The wise person questions himself, the fool others.

What would have been the fate of sages if there were no fools?

Passion without knowledge and the desire to learn is foolishness