Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
~By Henry Ellis ~
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 ~
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public?
~By Thomas Chalmers ~
Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
~By Angela Carter ~
In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
~By Ted Koppel ~
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 ~
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
~By Alan Perlis ~
I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
~By Charles Darwin ~
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
~By Alice Walker ~
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 ~
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
~By Ernest Hemingway ~
Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
Words are the money of fools.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
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 ~
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 ~
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
~By Douglas Adams ~
Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.
~By Dick Armey ~
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 ~
People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
~By Patti Smith ~
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 ~
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
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 ~
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
~By Charles Lamb ~
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 ~
At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
~By Alcuin ~
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
~By Edward Young ~
Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.
~By Anacharsis ~
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
~By Lord Byron ~
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
~By Voltaire ~
In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
~By George Santayana ~
I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.
~By Jack Black ~
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 ~
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
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 ~
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.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
Fools are without number.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
Fortune, that favors fools.
~By Ben Jonson ~
The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.
~By C. S. Forester ~
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
~By Josh Billings ~
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
~By Doris Lessing ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.
~By Holbrook Jackson ~
When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
~By Russell Baker ~
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
~By Lord Byron ~
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
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 ~
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
~By Voltaire ~
Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.
~By Og Mandino ~
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 ~
Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
~By Norman Ralph Augustine ~
Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
~By E. T. Bell ~
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 ~
There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
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 ~
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 ~
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
~By Plato ~
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.
~By Robert Benchley ~
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.
~By Samuel Pepys ~
Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.
~By Carroll O'Connor ~
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
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 ~
Silence is the virtue of fools.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.
~By Bill Terry ~
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
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 ~
People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
~By Bodhidharma ~
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
~By Alexander Pope ~
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
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 ~
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
~By Edward Young ~
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 ~
Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.
~By Roger Mudd ~
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.
~By William Lamb Melbourne ~
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
~By Heinrich Heine ~
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
~By Bernard Baruch ~
Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.
~By Earl Derr Biggers ~
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
Only fools are positive.
~By Moe Howard ~
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 ~
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
~By Doug Larson ~
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
~By John Gay ~
Rush Limbaugh is good for the party. Drive it all the way down, take it down as low as it can go, make complete fools of themselves, because it's always darkest before the dawn, and then maybe a moderate can come in and rescue them.
~By Evan Thomas ~
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