Top 100 Quotes About Fools
#1. In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.
Horace
#2. Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!
Emile Zola
#3. 22 "How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
Anonymous
#4. Kunley belongs to a spiritual school of thought known as crazy wisdom. Every religion has its branch of crazy wisdom. The Christians have their Fools for Christ. The Muslims have their Sufi Mast-Qalanders. The Jews have Woody Allen. Yet none is as crazy, or as wise, as Drukpa Kunley.
Eric Weiner
#5. I neither suffer myself, nor other fools, gladly.
Alec Guinness
#6. Always remember this, Henri. Men trade for profit. They are driven by greed. But debt is about fear, and fear is stronger than greed. The true power, the weapon that defeats all others, is debt. Fools search for gold. The wise man studies debt. That is the key to all business.
Edward Rutherfurd
#7. Keeping a [journal] need not be a major chore-just a few minutes of notes each day can be valuable. Writing crystallizes insights, fools the defense of forgetfulness, and builds a collection of ideas and reflections that can spur further insights even years later.
Roger N. Walsh
#10. We are fallen fools, most of our philosophy is not "the proper use of human reason" but the improper use of human reason.
Peter Kreeft
#11. Thar is two things that every national crisis is bound to show up: first, a lot o' dum fools in command; second, lot o great commanders in the ranks. An' fortunately before the crisis is over the hull thing is sure set right, and the men is where they oughter be.
Ernest Thompson Seton
#13. The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.
Ernest Hemingway,
#16. A madman is one who considers himself sane and thinks that fools don't belong in his rank.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#17. Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
William Congreve
#19. 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.
Jennifer Estep
#21. But let us laugh carelessly like other men.
Let us be timid even among fools.
Let us knot silence around our throats.
For they would surely kill us.
Glenway Wescott
#22. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books.
Robertson Davies
#23. Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others look like fools.
Jaggi Vasudev
#24. Love is never easy,yet we all still search for it like fools.
Fare
Casey Odell
#25. 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
Cat Stevens
#26. Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man.
Thomas Hobbes
#28. A disciple, in his reverence for the Master, looked upon him as God incarnate. "Tell me, O Master," he said, "why you have come into this world." "To teach fools like you to stop wasting their time worshiping Masters.
Anthony De Mello
#29. History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Ambrose Bierce
#30. Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools
Gene Brown
#31. I'm working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
Wislawa Szymborska
#32. And then I knew I was one of Life's fools,
Whom only death would treat as the equal
Of other men
Edgar Lee Masters
#33. Only fools pity survivors their scars and you should never kowtow to fools
Jeaniene Frost
#34. It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor to feel shame loses Paradise himself.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#36. There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#37. Rules are part of our lives. Only children and fools believe they're immune.
Ellen Hopkins
#39. These fools who haven't the slightest idea how to live the morals they espouse. These fools who proclaim themselves men of God, yet show not the slightest reverance to His word ... Is it any different from a drunkard preaching temperance? A whore preaching modesty?
Seth Grahame-Smith
#40. She tipped her head back and started laughing, and I started picturing people twerking - everyone in the limo. Quiet Luxen Dude. Rolland. Sadi. All of them bent over, butts in the air, looking like damn fools.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#41. It wasn't Hell; only fools and drama queens throw that word around about a place like Gotham. It was worse, in a way, because it was manmade. There wasn't any timeless malevolence behind it all, it was just ... what human beings can descend to when they let themselves forget they can be heroes.
Chris Dee
#42. Fools write books about madness being an elevated mental state or an alternative form of creativity. It's not, it's anguish.
Jonathan Kellerman
#43. Perhaps it is the case that no organization or hierarchy can withstand the closest of scrutiny. Not even a smugly self-touted meritocracy. The success and persistence of utter fools everywhere is sad testament to that.
Ian C. Esslemont
#44. All utopias are dystopias. The term "dystopia" was coined by fools that believed a "utopia" can be functional.
A.E. Samaan
#45. Would you be happy! hearken, then, the way:
Heed not to-morrow, heed not yesterday;
The magic words of life are here and now -
O fools, that after some to-morrow stray!
Omar Khayyam
#46. Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.
Jonathan Swift
#47. Not knowing what he sees, he adores the sight; That false face fools and fuels his delight
Ovid
#48. Fools are unable to comprehend the wisdom of asking God to manifest His desires into their own hearts. Instead, they ignore the tugs of the Holy Spirit on their heartstrings. They follow after their own yearnings, which only provide temporary pleasure, incomplete joy, and eventual damnation.
Cheryl Zelenka
#50. Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.
Robert Genn
#51. Planting flowers in a desert is more productive than imparting wisdom to fools.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#52. For what that passes among mortals everywhere is not full of folly, done be fools in the presence of fools?
Erasmus
#54. Indiana's governor is coming under fire for a new law that some people feel is anti-gay. The governor now says he is not anti-gay. Then immediately afterwards he said, 'April Fools.' It wasn't his best joke.
Conan O'Brien
#55. The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
Paulo Coelho
#56. The number of fools is infinite
Anonymous
#57. There are two kinds of Fools. The real Fool is the most sincere of mortals: the Court Fool and his kind - the trifling, jesting buffoon - but simulate the family virtue, and steal the family name, for sordid purposes.
Albion W. Tourgee
#58. Tell your father he must come himself. I do not waste my time on fools and younger sons. I am old fashioned in this. I like to talk to the horse's head, not the horse's arse.
Joe Abercrombie
#59. Let the fools hold on to their treasured stupidity
Let yourself be safe in wisdom with much rapidity
Munia Khan
#60. Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
Voltaire
#61. In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.
Jean Baudrillard
#62. 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.
Giacomo Casanova
#63. Wisdom is the greatest speaker in history;
nature, second.
Folly is the worst speaker in history;
fools, second.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#64. Children and fools always speak the truth.
Mark Twain
#65. This clay, so strong of heart, of sense so fine,
Surely such clay is more than half divine
'Tis only fools speak evil of the clay,
The very stars are made of clay like mine.
Omar Khayyam
#66. It must be an industrious youth that provides against age; and he that fools away the one must either beg or starve in the other.
Heath L'Estrange
#69. 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.
Thornton Wilder
#70. Many are the fools who say that Jesus stood in His own path and opposed Himself; that He knew not His own mind, and in the absence of that knowledge confounded Himself.
Khalil Gibran
#71. 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.
Glenn Close
#72. 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.
Adam Savage
#73. The future is bright, but fools run straight ahead and get blinded then complain, because they didn't prepare by simply wearing a pair of shades.
James Jean-Pierre
#74. If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.
Florence King
#75. Nearly all of our disasters come from a few fools having the courage of their convictions.
Coventry Patmore
#76. I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer.
Florence King
#77. There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
Moliere
#78. The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson.
Tamora Pierce
#79. We were fools and now we were driving to our deaths in a rental car. Janet Jackson was tinkling from the speakers, asking what we had done for her as of late
Dave Eggers
#80. Only the oppressed, the weak, and the fools get offended.
Den Sjo
#81. There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.
Bessie Smith
#82. Well, well. What have we here? (Thief #1)
Looks like we got some little pigeons just right for a plucking. (Thief #2)
Well, well. What have we here? (Sin)
Looks like a pack of fools wanting to die. (Braden)
Kinley MacGregor
#83. I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one.
Sylvia Plath
#85. Where there is wisdom there is life,
and where there is evil there is death.
Folly is your enemy and so are fools;
wisdom is your friend and so are the wise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#86. It's truth to say in all save solitude - and in some sad cases, even then - you can always count on the company of fools.
Jay Kristoff
#87. In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity
Robert Browning
#88. I don't put up with being messed around, and I don't suffer fools gladly. The short version of that is that I'm a bitch. Trust me, I can provide character references.
Robin McKinley
#89. Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.
Thomas Carlyle
#90. I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn't know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they conformed better than I to a code. I wanted to conform but I couldn't so I wrote my poetry.
William Carlos Williams
#91. Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
Zhuangzi
#92. I don't deal with fools terribly lightly, and I think under any definition the man's a fool.
Tony Windsor
#93. I am glad to see that you have enough imagination not to be altogether a fool ... Yes, it is want of imagination that makes people fools; they won't believe what they can't understand.
H. Rider Haggard
#94. Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.
Robert Jordan
#95. Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,
Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.
Voltaire
#96. Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don't have the courage, or, the intellect, to converse with.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#97. The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.
C.S. Forester
#98. Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.
Horace
#99. Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls,
The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools.
Thomas Otway
#100. We must know the facts and be guided by them...nature does not forgive fools nor does she spare them the penalties of their folly
Ernest Callenbach
