Quotes
Quotes about Fools
The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.
...no battle is ever won...they are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and Victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen.
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
For fools admire, but me of sense approve.
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
The first of April, some do say Is set apart for All Fools' day; But why the people call it so, Nor I, nor they themselves, do know.
I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers.
The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing. Few lend (but fools) Their working tools. - Thomas Tusser,
Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise, Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw, With graceless toil of beak and added claw, The meagre food that scarce thy want allays! And this--to gratify the gloating gaze Of fools, who value Nature not a straw, But know to prize the infraction of her law An hard perversion of her creatures' ways! Thee the wild woods await, in leaves attired, Where notes of liquid utterance should engage Thy bill, that now with pain scant forage earns. - Julian C.H. Fane,
I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.
A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.
Fools look to tomorrow, wise men use tonight.
Fools rush in - and get all the best seats.
