Fools Quotes
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
Alan Paton -
We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
Lord Byron
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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
Isaac D'Israeli -
How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
Olive Schreiner -
In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
Ted Koppel -
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
Carl T. Rowan -
Fools wait for a lucky day, but everyday is a lucky day for an industrious man.
Gautama Buddha
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It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.
Maggie Smith -
How easy love makes fools of us.
Moliere -
Abraham Lincoln is my name And with my pen I wrote the same I wrote in both hast and speed and left it here for fools to read.
Abraham Lincoln -
Love's for fools wise enough to take a chance.
Amy Grant -
Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.
Lester B. Pearson -
Flattery makes fools of the best of us.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?
Catherynne M. Valente -
Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools.
August Bebel -
In all superstition wise men follow fools.
Francis Bacon -
But what if we are dealing with fools?
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
You can sail in the desert with a ship of fools. You can smuggle in Moses and his book of rules. But you can't take a mother and give her back her son. What kind of freedom is bought with a gun? People like to build their prison walls when they're afraid to look inside... a thousand points of light are the muzzle flashes in the night. And the freedoms you profess to hold won't bring the dead back from the cold.
Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden -
Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
Socrates
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Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.
Abraham Lincoln -
Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her.
Abraham Lincoln -
Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.
John Milton -
Make peace, you fools!
Gerd von Rundstedt