The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
~By Alexander Pope ~
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
~By Franz Schubert ~
I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.
~By Barry Goldwater ~
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts.
~By James P. Hogan ~
Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.
~By Russell Hoban ~
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
~By George Santayana ~
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
~By Edward Young ~
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
~By Samuel Pepys ~
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
~By Alexander Pope ~
The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.
~By Patricia Highsmith ~
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
~By William Blake ~
In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.
~By Philip Stanhope ~
The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
~By Horace ~
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration.
~By Edmondo De Amicis ~
You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.
~By Nile Rodgers ~
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.
~By Maggie Smith ~
It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.
~By Phaedrus ~
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
~By Horace ~
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.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
People just automatically say 'If this guy is George and Barbara Bush's son, we don't have any question about those personal qualities that we were fooled on by Clinton.'
~By Robert Teeter ~
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
~By John Greenleaf Whittier ~
Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.
~By John Ruskin ~
Only fools are positive.
~By Moe Howard ~
To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
~By Charles Maurice de Talleyrand ~
One fool at least in every married couple.
~By Henry Fielding ~
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
~By Voltaire ~
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
~By Carroll Quigley ~
It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.
~By Cardinal De Retz ~
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
~By Norman Douglas ~
Dare to wear the foolish clown face.
~By Frank Sinatra ~
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
~By Alexander Pope ~
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.
~By John Muir ~
Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
~By John Donne ~
The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
~By Chanakya ~
I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
~By Wilkie Collins ~
I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky.
~By Monica Lewinsky ~
The entire universe is working against me. I can't believe the entire universe could be that foolish!
~By Craig Bruce ~
Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.
~By George Raft ~
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
~By Edward Young ~
A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
~By William Makepeace Thackeray ~
Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.
~By Cleopatra ~
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
~By J. K. Rowling ~
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.
~By Nicolas Boileau ~
You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
~By Sitting Bull ~
Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
~By Bruce Lee ~
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
~By Cynthia Heimel ~
Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.
~By Alexander Meiklejohn ~
I am the fool, and must be the sufferer, if it be not of God.
~By Joanna Southcott ~
I wasn't absolutely too sure where the Falklands was, and I didn't want to make a bloody fool of myself.
~By Denis Thatcher ~
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
~By Horace ~
To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
~By William Penn ~
Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.
~By Leon Kass ~
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
~By William Makepeace Thackeray ~
People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
~By Bodhidharma ~
It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
~By James Taylor ~
Fools are without number.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
~By Akhenaton ~
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
~By Douglas Bader ~
You're here to sweat. This program is live. There's about one thousand million people watching you. So, you remember - one wrong word, one foolish gesture and your whole career could go down in flames. Hold that thought and have a nice night.
~By Paul Hogan ~
I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.
~By Bill Veeck ~
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
~By Albert Einstein ~
People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it.
~By Perry Como ~
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
~By Charles de Secondat ~
There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.
~By Elia Kazan ~
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
~By Lord Byron ~
You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.
~By Dave Blood ~
The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.
~By Lemuel K. Washburn ~
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
~By George Chapman ~
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
~By Will Durant ~
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
~By Moliere ~
Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
~By John Donne ~
I may be getting old, but not foolish.
~By Elia Kazan ~
Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
~By Norman Ralph Augustine ~
I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest.
~By Cesar Romero ~
To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.
~By Albert Ellis ~
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
~By Ilka Chase ~
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
~By Anton Chekhov ~
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.
~By Stefan Zweig ~
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
~By William Blake ~
I don't fool with a lot of things that I can't have fun with. There's not much reward in that.
~By Levon Helm ~
My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
~By Bob Marley ~
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
~By Joseph Addison ~
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
~By William Blake ~
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
~By Edward Young ~
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
~By John Updike ~
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
~By Epictetus ~
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
~By Samuel Butler ~
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
A fool is wise in his eyes.
~By King Solomon ~
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