Quotes About Fool

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]

To find his own salvation, a man must first find the fool locked inside himself and set it free.

The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.

A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in you it seems sweet, and gentle, and proper, and not as silly as it really is.

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool.

It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.

When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool

A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.

Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

How can you possibly be sympathetic to every fool on the planet? Just the other day, I heard a man whining about his hopeless love of cross-dressing. Call me unenlightened, but I started to laugh.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.

The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.

A fool has not stuff enough to make a good man.

The difference between a 'wise guy' and a wise man is plenty!

If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.

[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.

Any man, you'll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool.

An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.

It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.