Fools Quotes

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

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 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.