Top 100 Fools Fools Quotes
#1. The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
Larry Niven
#2. I looked over the despondency of the home crowd. Fools! Fools! I thought. Love it! Love the loss as well as the gain. Go home and dig it. Nobody was killed. We saw victory and defeat, and they were both wonderful.
Barry Hannah
#5. Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
Thomas A. Edison
#7. If the gods sent you to fight here, then the gods are fools.
Janet Morris
#8. If they are wise, do not quarrel with them; if they are fools, ignore them.
Epictetus
#9. If you believe you have a foolproof system, you've failed to take into consideration the creativity of fools.
Frank Abagnale
#10. Was this how it began? One silly woman with fire in her blood stirring the hearts of a legion of fools?
Hugh Howey
#11. His staff had shaken hands with her as though a woman was merely another kind of man. Fools! The seeds of Eve were in this radiant creature. The lullabyes of half a million years throbbed in her throat. Had they no sense of wonder, no reverence, no pride?
Mervyn Peake
#12. Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
Voltaire
#13. Any nation that draws too great a distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.
Eric Greitens
#15. To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
#16. The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge
William Cowper
#17. What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself whenever I am in their company.
Giacomo Casanova De Seingalt
#18. Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
Juvenal
#19. As worms are used to bait fish; bribes are used to ensnare fools.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#20. Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which are so.
Joseph Hall
#22. I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.
Plato
#23. Too many men are afraid of being fools.
Henry Ford
#24. Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white ... They look through all the garbage and see a world run by fools and dullards and lazy people. And there's nothing they can do about it because they have no power.
Dav Pilkey
#26. Whoever has said these things is a fool." "Aye, but the words of a fool hold weight with other fools.
Samantha Holt
#27. So Hella is right whenshe says, 'Love enobles [veredelt].' Erno... said, 'You've made a slip of the tongue. You meant to say: love makes fools (of people) [vereselt].
Attributed To Grete Lainer
#28. Guys like you don't usually talk to girls like me. Girls like me don't get invited to prom. Guys don't make fools of themselves for girls like me. Girls like me are ignored. Invisible. But I'm not a girl anymore. I'm a woman. Thanks for reminding me.
Olivia Cunning
#29. There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
Samuel Butler
#30. Nobel Prize in Literature [10w]
Only fools and Swedes equate literary prizes with literary merit.
Beryl Dov
#32. Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
John Tillotson
#33. There are enough fools in Washington to destroy the country without any help from Muslim terrorists.
Paul Craig Roberts
#34. God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
John Muir
#35. I cannot tolerate fools - won't have anything to do with them. I only want to associate with brilliant people.
Ida Lupino
#37. It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained kind of half-laugh, as such persons are never without some diffidence about them; but that of fools is the most honest, natural, open laugh in the world.
Richard Steele
#38. What am I to do with you?" Redd asked.
"M-maybe you could-" Jack began.
The Cat raised a paw. "I know."
"It was a rhetorical question, fools! You don't answer it! Since when do I need help making anyone suffer?
Frank Beddor
#40. The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.
Euripides
#41. He was the freeman whom the truth made free;
Who first of all, the bands of Satan broke;
Who broke the bands of sin, and for his soul,
In spite of fools consulted seriously.
Robert Pollok
#42. As a wise man once said, "April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads."
Al Yankovic
#43. May be we are not such fools as we look. But though we be, we are well content, so long as we may be two fools together.
R.D. Blackmore
#44. Where did they go?"
"Don't know." The prisoner cracked a smile too big for his thin face. "I don't think they did, either. You should have seen how long it took them to open an Announcer. Looked like couple of bumbling fools."
Daniel felt himself almost begin to laugh.
Lauren Kate
#45. When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.
Jonathan Swift
#46. Her nudity is her armor. It blinded the drooling fools. They couldn't see anything else while they saw her body.
Brent Weeks
#47. People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb calls 'Black Swans' - are inevitable. Some are likely to be desperately unpleasant too
Martin Wolf
#48. What do you think spies are: priests, saints, and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists, and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives. Do you think they sit like monks in London balancing the rights and wrongs?
John Le Carre
#49. As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.
George Bernard Shaw
#50. You didn't really think they were ghosts, did you?"
I blushed and Tolya cleared his throat. Zoya rolled her eyes and strode toward the hill. "I am surrounded by fools.
Leigh Bardugo
#51. The devil fools with the best laid plans.
Neil Young
#52. You need a name."
I covered the receiver for a moment. "We need a team name."
"Hunters," Raphael said.
"Valiant Knights of the Fur," Dali said.
"Justice Group," Jim said. "Since Justice League is taken."
"Fools." Doolittle shook his head.
"Fools," I said into the receiver.
Ilona Andrews
#53. If you want to reduce the rats, use the cats! If you want to reduce the fools, use the books!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#54. Anybody who has traveled this far on a fool's errand," said Salo, "has no choice but to uphold the honor of fools by completing the errand.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#55. Oh, that," said the king with a shrug. "That isn't your honor, Costis. That's the public perception of your honor. It has nothing to do with anything important, except perhaps for manipulating fools who mistake honor for its bright, shiny trappings. You can always change the perceptions of fools.
Megan Whalen Turner
#56. Take myths, for instance! As we know, fools are the overwhelming majority, which means that the witness to any interesting event has generally been a fool. Ergo: a myth is a description of a real event as perceived by a fool and refined by a poet. eh?
Arkady Strugatsky
#57. People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it.
Victoria Legrand
#58. People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
#60. Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her
Abraham Lincoln
#61. I rely on the promise, 'God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.'
Jane Welsh Carlyle
#62. Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
Angela Carter
#63. Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough ...
Karl Marx
#64. Maharishikas Gargi and Maitreyi were rishikas, and today there are fools who claim that women are not to be allowed to study the scriptures or to write new ones.
Amish Tripathi
#65. The burden of genius is not the labor of our endeavors but in sharing the world with fools who don't know they are fools. Mark my words, the pseudointellectual will be the death of us all.
Nathan Yocum
#66. Most of their lives, people are just waiting to be ambushed. ~ Brandon Hull
Jayden Hunter
#67. All fools suffer the burden of dissatisfaction with themselves.
Seneca.
#68. Sex makes bumble-tongued fools even out of the most eloquent, but the beauty of it is that it also tunes our ears to hear the meaning of words that, spoken under other circumstances, would make us laugh or cry or frown.
Megan Hart
#69. They pushed and pushed for so long. They knew I was something dangerous, something different. Sooner or later, they had to know I would snap and come to cut them down. Or perhaps they think I'm still a child. The fools. Alexander was a child when he ruined his first nation.
Pierce Brown
#70. Probably I am a fool ... most poets are fools ... but for some reason I love faith, but have none.
Anne Sexton
#71. A clever slave deserves a clever master, and you lot all look like fools.
George R R Martin
#72. For most of my life i have been adored by fools and hated by people of good sense, and they all make up stories about me in which I am either a saint or a whore. But I am above these judgments, I am a Queen.
Philippa Gregory
#73. If the fools do not control the world, it isn't because they are not in the majority.
E.W. Howe
#74. It is not fools that I seek to address.
Ayn Rand
#75. They call them fools, who are unable to resist the slightest chance love might exist.
Garth Brooks
#76. The question is not why fools fall in love. It is expected of them. When "smart" people fall in love - that's the problem.
Jessica Zafra
#77. Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
H.G.Wells
#78. Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.
George Bernard Shaw
#80. He put his hand over hers. "Am I a coward?"
"Because you are afraid? No. Only fools are never afraid.
Sherry Thomas
#81. Don't speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your words.
Nas
#82. The eyes of a dog, the expression of a dog, the warmly wagging tail of a dog and the gloriously cold damp nose of a dog were in my opinion all God-given for one purpose only-to make complete fools of us human beings.
Barbara Woodhouse
#83. Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
Quintilian
#84. Plans can break down. You cannot plan the future. Only presumptuous fools plan. The wise man steers.
Terry Pratchett
#85. We were glad to have in our midst a sprinkling of fools, who, although only comparatively foolish, provided a touch of colour and some occasion for laughter and mockery.
Hermann Hesse
#86. Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
George Bernard Shaw
#87. We see very few people who are satisfied. They say that the only ones who are really happy are the enlightened or the fools.
Frederick Lenz
#88. Everybody wants to have intimate conversations, but the smart fellows don't give out, only the fools. The smart fellows talk intimately about the fools, and examine them all over and give them advice.
Saul Bellow
#90. God grant me a quick honorable death, Isgrimnur prayed, and never let me be one of those old fools who sits by the campfire telling the young men that things will never be as good as they once were.
Tad Williams
#91. I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
Tatyana Tolstaya
#92. Some fools in the desert with nothing to do ... invented me, and they invented you. And other fools keep it all going and growing. Everybody, we're a figment of their imagination ...
Randy Newman
#93. The world is full of fools eagerly waiting to hear what they long to be told.
Jeff Wheeler
#94. Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.
Dean Koontz
#95. Fearing, you climbed the mountain. Fearing, you faced its dangers. And fearing, you went on. That is real bravery, Rowan. Only fools do not fear. Sheba knew that. Sheba knew everything all along.
Emily Rodda
#96. Do not think like a human.
You have the ability within you to create anything you wish.
Truth is, you are all highly powerful entities walking this planet, disguised as simple biological beings & the disguise fools everyone -- even yourself.
Bashar
#97. Beware of little expenses; A small leak will sink a great ship, as Poor Richard says; and again, Who dainties love, shall beggars prove; and moreover, Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
Benjamin Franklin
#98. World is so full of idiots that you can't even imagine to escape. The only solution is isolation. But it still spares one!
Raheel Farooq
#99. My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them.
Bruce Barton
#100. If I had my wilderness, nature could be my lover. What can I do in the paved streets for my thirsty roots? I waste time. I encourage fools. I slip the vital hours into penny slot machines
to pass time, to start my stuck wheels only love can oil.
Elizabeth Smart
