Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.
~By Bill Terry ~
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
~By Josh Billings ~
For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
~By Henry Ellis ~
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.
~By Thornton Wilder ~
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.
~By Glenn Close ~
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
~By Douglas Bader ~
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.
~By Spiro T. Agnew ~
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.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
~By Zhuangzi ~
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
~By Queen Christina ~
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
~By Voltaire ~
I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.
~By Jack Black ~
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
~By King Solomon ~
A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
~By Carl T. Rowan ~
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
~By Josh Billings ~
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
~By Albert Einstein ~
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
~By Horace ~
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
~By Edward Young ~
In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
~By Ted Koppel ~
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
~By Voltaire ~
How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
~By Olive Schreiner ~
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.
~By William Lamb Melbourne ~
What is wealth? A dream of fools.
~By Abraham Cahan ~
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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 ~
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
~By Heinrich Heine ~
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
~By Plato ~
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
~By Alexander Pope ~
It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.
~By Christian Bale ~
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
~By Ezra Taft Benson ~
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.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
~By Thornton Wilder ~
Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.
~By Franz Grillparzer ~
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
~By Simone Weil ~
Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
~By Angela Carter ~
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
~By Erica Jong ~
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
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 ~
Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
~By Barbara Smith ~
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
~By Ernest Hemingway ~
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.
~By Mary Wortley Montagu ~
My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.
~By Salma Hayek ~
Fortune, that favors fools.
~By Ben Jonson ~
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.
~By Greta Scacchi ~
It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
~By Paddy Ashdown ~
I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
~By John Donne ~
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.
~By Claud-Adrian Helvetius ~
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.
~By Robert Benchley ~
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
~By Douglas Adams ~
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
~By Bernard Baruch ~
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.
~By Lawrence Durrell ~
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
~By Charles Lamb ~
Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
~By Norman Ralph Augustine ~
Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.
~By Og Mandino ~
We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
~By Ralph Bunche ~
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 ~
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
~By Lord Byron ~
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
~By John Gay ~
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
~By Doug Larson ~
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 ~
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
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 ~
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.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
~By Paulo Coelho ~
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
~By Alan Perlis ~
Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.
~By Carroll O'Connor ~
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
~By Voltaire ~
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
~By Horace ~
When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
~By Russell Baker ~
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
~By E. T. Bell ~
Only fools are positive.
~By Moe Howard ~
Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.
~By Chi Chi Rodriguez ~
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
~By Wilkie Collins ~
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
~By Alexander Pope ~
My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.
~By Michelle Shocked ~
At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
~By Alcuin ~
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
~By Anton Chekhov ~
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.
~By William Alexander ~
Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.
~By Anacharsis ~
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