Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
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 ~
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
~By Queen Christina ~
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
~By Heinrich Heine ~
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
~By George Chapman ~
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 ~
Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.
~By Dick Armey ~
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
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 ~
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
~By Samuel Butler ~
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 ~
Only fools are positive.
~By Moe Howard ~
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 ~
Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.
~By Anacharsis ~
It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
~By E. M. Forster ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
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 ~
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 ~
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
~By Doris Lessing ~
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
~By Alice Walker ~
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
~By Alexander Pope ~
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 ~
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 ~
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
~By Alexander Pope ~
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
~By Voltaire ~
Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached.
~By Kenneth Grahame ~
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
~By Horace ~
I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
~By John Donne ~
Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
~By Ezra Taft Benson ~
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 ~
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 ~
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
~By Alexander Pope ~
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 ~
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
~By Ted Koppel ~
The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public?
~By Thomas Chalmers ~
Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.
~By Holbrook Jackson ~
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
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.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
~By Bodhidharma ~
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
~By Mark Twain ~
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
~By Plato ~
The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.
~By C. S. Forester ~
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 ~
Silence is the virtue of fools.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
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 ~
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.
~By Carroll O'Connor ~
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
~By James Agate ~
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
~By Aulus Persius Flaccus ~
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
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 ~
Fortune, that favors fools.
~By Ben Jonson ~
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 ~
Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.
~By Roger Mudd ~
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
~By Lord Byron ~
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 ~
Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
~By Norman Ralph Augustine ~
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 ~
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.
~By William Lamb Melbourne ~
Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.
~By Earl Derr Biggers ~
Fools are without number.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
~By Alcuin ~
I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
~By Charles Darwin ~
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
~By Douglas Bader ~
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.
~By William Congreve ~
When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
~By Russell Baker ~
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
~By Ernest Hemingway ~
Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.
~By John le Carre ~
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
~By Josh Billings ~
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 ~
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 ~
The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
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 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 ~
Words are the money of fools.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.
~By Jack Black ~
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
~By John Gay ~
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.
~By Bill Terry ~
What is wealth? A dream of fools.
~By Abraham Cahan ~
Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
~By Barbara Smith ~
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
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 ~
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
~By Zhuangzi ~
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
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 ~
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