For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
~By Alexander Pope ~
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 ~
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 ~
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
~By Voltaire ~
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
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 ~
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
~By Zhuangzi ~
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
~By George Santayana ~
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 ~
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
~By Charles Darwin ~
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 ~
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 ~
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
~By Lord Byron ~
People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
~By Patti Smith ~
Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
~By Angela Carter ~
When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
~By Russell Baker ~
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
~By Horace ~
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
~By John Gay ~
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 ~
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 ~
I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
~By John Donne ~
What is wealth? A dream of fools.
~By Abraham Cahan ~
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 main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
~By Bernard Baruch ~
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 always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
~By Wilkie Collins ~
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
~By Horace ~
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
~By Aulus Persius Flaccus ~
Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.
~By Chi Chi Rodriguez ~
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
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 ~
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
~By Heinrich Heine ~
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 ~
I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.
~By Jack Black ~
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 ~
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 ~
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
~By Charles Lamb ~
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 ~
Silence is the wit of fools.
~By Anatole France ~
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
~By Alexander Pope ~
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 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 ~
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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 ~
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
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 ~
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 ~
Only fools are positive.
~By Moe Howard ~
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
~By Albert Einstein ~
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 ~
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Silence is the virtue of fools.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
~By Henry Ellis ~
Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.
~By Roger Mudd ~
Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
~By Ezra Taft Benson ~
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 ~
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
~By Paulo Coelho ~
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
~By Josh Billings ~
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.
~By William Lamb Melbourne ~
In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
~By Ted Koppel ~
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 ~
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
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 ~
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 ~
The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly.
~By Kathleen Turner ~
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
~By Alan Perlis ~
Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
~By Queen Christina ~
Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
~By Barbara Smith ~
Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
~By Frank Dane ~
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 ~
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 ~
Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
~By John Tillotson ~
Fortune, that favors fools.
~By Ben Jonson ~
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 ~
While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
~By Horace ~
At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
~By Alcuin ~
Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.
~By Carroll O'Connor ~
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
~By Voltaire ~
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 ~
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
~By George Chapman ~
People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
~By Bodhidharma ~
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
~By Norman Ralph Augustine ~
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 ~
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
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