Quotes
Quotes about Fools
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
If solid happiness we prize,
Within our breast this jewel lies,
And they are fools who roam.
The world has nothing to bestow;
From our own selves our joys must flow,
And that dear hut, our home.
Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway,
And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
The solemn fop; significant and budge;
A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge.
In idle wishes fools supinely stay;
Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.
I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
Come out, my lord, it is a world of fools.
Of what I call God,
And fools call Nature.
Fools! who fancy Christ mistaken;
Man a tool to buy and sell;
Earth a failure, God-forsaken,
Ante-room of Hell.
A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness of fools.
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
Now such an one for daughter Creon had
As maketh wise men fools and young men mad.
Fools! they know not how much half exceeds the whole.
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.
"They are too green," he said, "and only good for fools."
"There, take," says Justice, "take ye each a shell;
We thrive at Westminster on fools like you.
'T was a fat oyster! live in peace,--adieu."
Fools make a mock at sin.
Paradise of fools; Fool's paradise.
Fool me no fools.
I'm summoned by the fields and hills, The shady maples in the garden, The bank of the deserted burn, The liberties the country offers. Give me your hand. I will return At the beginning of October: We'll drink together once again, And o'er our cups of friendly candor Discuss a dozen gentlemen-- We'll talk of fools and wicked gentry, And those with flunkey's souls from birth, And sometimes of the Tsar of Heaven, And sometimes of the one on earth.
They are fools to cry up the Old Faith by dying for it. A man will best keep his faith alive by himself keeping alive
