Fools Quotes

I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

Words are the money of fools.

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.