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Quotes About Fool

It is impossible to convince the fool that there are pleasures superior to those we share with the rest of the animals.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
A little patience in dealing with a fool helps us avoid sacrificing our good manners to our convictions.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The fool is scandalized and laughs when he notices that philosophers contradict each other. It is difficult to make the fool understand that philosophy is precisely that: the art of contradicting each other without canceling each other out.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Grave problems never frighten the fool. Those men who are disquieted, for example, by the qualitative deterioration of a society, make him laugh.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
To discover the fool there is no better reagent than the word "medieval." He immediately sees red.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Thinking corrupts the imbecile.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
A confused idea attracts a fool like a flame attracts an insect.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.
~ Nicolas Boileau
Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire. (A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.)
~ Nicolas Boileau
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
~ Nicolas Boileau
Um idiota sempre encontra um idiota ainda maior para admirá-lo.
~ Nicolas Boileau
Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly,Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky,From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan,I really think the greatest fool is man.
~ Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
~ Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
A fool can always find a greater fool to admire him
~ Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.
~ Nicolaus Copernicus
However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
~ Nikolai Gogol
Una palabra serena a un hombre sensato vale más que un año de súplicas a un tonto.
~ Noah Gordon
In my life I have been a fool with liquor and a wise man with horses. I was born on a horse, or just off one anyway, for my mother died in a fall a month before she was due to be light of me, and they cut me from her there. Which was the last time I was throwed, except by whiskey.
~ Unknown
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be lied to. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery. I
~ Octavia E. Butler
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Love is a word that is constantly heard, Hate is a word that is not. Love, I am told, is more precious that gold. Love, I have read, is hot. But hate is the verb that to me is superb, And love but a drug on the mart. Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But hating, my boy, is an art.
~ Ogden Nash
No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?
~ Orhan Pamuk