Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
~By Bodhidharma ~
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 ~
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
~By Anton Chekhov ~
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 ~
I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
~By Charles Darwin ~
Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
~By Frank Dane ~
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 ~
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
~By Bernard Baruch ~
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
~By Edward Young ~
For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
~By Alexander Pope ~
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 ~
There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
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 ~
Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
~By Barbara Smith ~
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
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 ~
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
~By Josh Billings ~
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 ~
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.
~By Robert Benchley ~
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
~By Horace ~
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
~By George Chapman ~
Fools are without number.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.
~By Anacharsis ~
Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.
~By John le Carre ~
Fortune, that favors fools.
~By Ben Jonson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
~By Henry Ellis ~
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 ~
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
~By Lord Byron ~
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
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 ~
I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.
~By Jack Black ~
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
~By Doris Lessing ~
While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
~By Horace ~
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 ~
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
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 ~
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
~By Alexander Pope ~
I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
~By Wilkie Collins ~
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
~By Voltaire ~
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
~By Horace ~
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
~By Alexander Pope ~
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 ~
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
~By Voltaire ~
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
~By Josh Billings ~
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
~By John Gay ~
Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
~By E. T. Bell ~
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
~By Alan Perlis ~
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
~By Douglas Bader ~
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 ~
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
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 ~
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 ~
Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
Silence is the virtue of fools.
~By Francis Bacon ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
~By Jean Paul ~
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 ~
In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
~By George Santayana ~
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 ~
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 ~
Only fools are positive.
~By Moe Howard ~
The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public?
~By Thomas Chalmers ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
~By Angela Carter ~
Silence is the wit of fools.
~By Anatole France ~
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.
~By Holbrook Jackson ~
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 ~
Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.
~By Dick Armey ~
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.
~By William Lamb Melbourne ~
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.
~By Og Mandino ~
The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly.
~By Kathleen Turner ~
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
~By Heinrich Heine ~
At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
~By Alcuin ~
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
~By Zhuangzi ~
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
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 ~
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
~By Aulus Persius Flaccus ~
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
~By E. M. Forster ~
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