Top 100 For Fools Quotes
#1. The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
#2. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public.
#3. God looks out for fools and niggers.
#4. What-ifs are for fools
#5. What-ifs are for fools. We are here because are meant to be.
#6. New' is a word for fools in towns who think / Style upon style in dress and thought at last / Must get somewhere.
#7. If is a word for fools.
#8. Seriousness is for fools and poor destitute families who have lived their entire lives on spam.
#9. If a man can hear the truth he's spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools ...
#10. The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
#11. Destiny was for fools. Sharzad would not wait for her life to happen. She would make it happen.
#12. Nothing is every quiet, except for fools.
#13. God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.
#14. Honor is a trophy for the wise;
dishonor is a crown for fools.
A good reputation in the sight of men is precious;
a good name in the sight of God is priceless.
#15. Impossible is a word found only in the dictionary for fools.
#16. I got tiger blood man. Dying is for fools
#17. When [Republicans] say they can reduce taxes and trim deficits at the same time, they are either deluded or deceptive, and they are playing voters for fools.
#18. Most of the stories you hear about dragons are fodder for fools.
#19. So if love is for fools, throw me a tambourine.
I'll wear it as a crown.
#20. I was convinced that acting was for fools. I was on the stage when I was eight with my father, he was playing one of those Greek blind guys that sees things and warns people, whilst I was in a blue skirt. I think there were 5,000 people in the theatre, it was ridiculous.
#21. Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration.
#22. That was just like a demon. Tempt mankind with their weaknesses, play them for fools, then condemn them and spread guilt like a plague...
#23. And every day past is just another step for fools on the way to their deaths.
#24. If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools ...
#25. Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.
#26. Trying to map the brain has often been called cartography for fools.
#27. If we are to succeed, we must maintain our anonymity, mask our identities. Even if it means suffering the mockery of others. Being taken for fools, fops, nitwits, even cowards.
#28. Hope. Hope is for fools.
#29. Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.
#30. Never honor the gods in one breath and take the gods for fools the next.
#31. Hard words are for fools and cowards.
#32. It is a fearful thing to love what death can touch. A fearful thing to love, hope, dream: to be - to be, And oh! to lose. A thing for fools, this, and a holy thing, a holy thing to love.
#33. Plans are for fools who are naive and selfish. No one can predict anyone's life, no matter how hard they might try. At the end of the day, everyone was gifted with something called free will.
#34. Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!
#35. 'Tell me, please,' Van Gogh asked, 'is it justifiable that a person wastes his only life by selling worthless paintings for fools?
#36. Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.
#37. Love's for fools wise enough to take a chance.
#38. Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe.
#39. Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.
#40. The foolhardy are not necessarily stupid, for fools simply follow their imagination whereas the stupid have none.
#41. Cheer is for fools with idle minds. I am neither a fool nor idle.
#42. Helping people was always a mistake ...
Trust was a word for fools. It was a word people used when they meant to betray you.
#43. I hope you're happy," she said to Mrs. James.
"Happiness is for fools." Helena James shrugged. "So I wish that for you.
#44. This is a sleaze bag murdering dog and he [O.J. Simpson] has played us for fools. And the worst thing he did was exacerbate the racial divide in this country. He divided black and white America.
#45. I do not play games, but always just say what's on my mind. Ostentatious modesty - for fools. If a man afraid of your honesty, it means that he is not the one you need.
#46. Love is for fools. It is a surging of blood in the loins ... there is no mystery, and no magic. Find someone else, my boy.
#47. I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.
#48. There is no right and wrong, and precepts are for fools. Every thing is just as it is! And we must experience things without condemning them, because if we condemn them, then we are becoming too involved.
#49. Love is for fools, Christian.
#50. For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
#51. God looks out for fools and babies.
#52. Regret is just a waste of time for fools.
#53. How short life is for fools.
#54. Memories never did anyone any good, and weepy sentiment was for fools too weak to suck it up and do what needed to be done.
#55. Yesterday I was on the edge Hoping everything was going to work itself out A good honest man doing the work of God Trying to make things better for Him A lover of life in a school for fools Trying to find another way to survive
#56. I'm working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
#57. Don't work for fools. It's not worth it. Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.
#58. Well, luck is for fools. It's all they have to hope for, poor devils.
#59. love was nothing but a prison for fools.
#60. A man with experience can gain his place in the world. A man of continous arguments cease to learn. O' But a man of wisdom understands experience comes and goes and arguments are for fools.
#61. There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many ready to take advantage of this fact, and withhold from needy talent the moral right to a deserved remuneration.
#62. What fools the public were! They were exactly like sheep ... thought Mr. Abbott sleepily ... following each other's lead, neglecting one book and buying another just because other people were buying it, although, for the life of you, you couldn't see what the one lacked and the other possessed.
#63. Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
#64. What fools we are, eh? What fools, sitting here in the sun, singing. And of love, too! I am too old for it and you are too young, and yet we waste our time singing about it.
Ah, well, let's have a glass of wine, eh?
#65. Your idealism will get you killed or, worse, knighted, and you'll spend the rest of your days among fools and MPs. As for me, the chance to refuse an audience with the queen would be exquisite.
#66. Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.
#67. There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the nightmares ... heroes in the gutters and in the mirror; saints in the frozen wasteland; fools and liars on the throne of wisdom, and hands reaching out in hunger that will never be filled.
#68. Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.
#69. 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.
#70. The future is too good to waste on lies. And life is way too short to care for the damnation of others, as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong.
#71. Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
#72. We're young, we're not monsters, no fools: we'll conquer happiness for ourselves.
#73. Troube comes when a person starts asking for money; it never does what they think it will do. And then there's the problem of destiny. Things never turn out well when you try to outwit destiny. Only fools do that.
#74. Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold.
#75. Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
#76. Wisdom doesn't teach fools for long.
#77. And what else is it that men seek in life but power? If they want money, it is but for the power that attends it, and it is power again that they strive for in all the knowledge they acquire. Fools and sots aim at happiness, but men aim only at power.
#78. We're romantic. We're hopeful. We're done for. The worst part of this all? The idea of struggle and compromise seems exciting to us-that's how stupid we are. There's no stopping fools, I say. We're still kids at heart. Those dreams are still there. Now we just have to go chase them.
#79. Everything teaches, everyone preaches, all have a gospel to sell! Better the one who is honest and open in declaring an agenda than the one who fools you into believing they are only spinning a pretty fancy for beauty's sake.
#80. A university student attending lectures on general relativity i the morning and others on quantum mechanics in the afternoon might be forgiven for thinking that his professors are fools, or have neglected to communicate with each other for at least a century.
#81. I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.
#82. Too easily impressed," Evanna tutted, resuming her former appearance. "You shouldn't judge by what's on the outside. Only a fool falls for a pretty face. Are you fools?
#83. 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.
#84. The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.
#85. It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live. The fools, the innumerable fools, take it all for granted, skate about cheerfully on the surface and never think of inquiring what's underneath.
#86. Winners will take what they know and share it with others.
The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
#87. 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.
#88. No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools; for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.
#89. Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
#90. Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
#91. 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.
#92. Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.
#93. 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.
#94. I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.
#95. And a real, undoubted grief is sometimes capable of making a solid and steadfast man even out of a phenomenally light-minded one, if only for a short time; moreover, real and true grief has sometimes even made fools more intelligent, also only for a time, of course; grief has this property.
#96. Captain of our fairy band,
Helena is here at hand,
And the youth, mistook by me,
Pleading for a lover's fee.
Shall we their fond pageant see?
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
#97. Anyone who claims they have a genius for war should be regarded as the greatest of fools. For the successful conduct of war is an exercise in the management of folly.
#98. I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.
#99. Whenever you commend, add a compelling reason for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and the admiration of fools.
#100. 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.
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