Fools Quotes
- Page 2With 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.
Glenn Close
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Thornton Wilder
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.
Giacomo Casanova
The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!
Alex Trebek
Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.
Chris Christie
Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.
Franz Grillparzer
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.
William Lamb Melbourne
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
Anton Chekhov
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
Charles Lamb
Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
Jean Paul
People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
Bodhidharma
Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached.
Kenneth Grahame
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Havelock Ellis