Fools Quotes
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In general admittedly the Wise of all times have always said the same thing, and the fools, that is to say the vast majority of all times, have always done the same thing, i.e. the opposite; and so it will remain in the future.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
Ezra Taft Benson
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The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.
Washington Allston
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Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of the Numenoreans, not till now have I understood the tale of your people and their fall. As wicked fools I scorned them, but I pity them at last. For if this is indeed, as the Elves say, the gift of the One to Men, it is bitter to receive.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Were there no fools, there would be no flatterers.
Norm MacDonald
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Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.
Scott Westerfeld
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We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
Lord Byron
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Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray Jews wildered, Magians far on error’s way. We mortals are composed of two great schools Enlightened knaves or else religious fools.
Al-Maʿarri
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We are all fools in love.
Jane Austen
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Stiff-necked fools, you think you are cool to deny me for simplicity.
Bob Marley
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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.
George Bernard Shaw
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It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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European lotteries are the tax on fools.
Cavour
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Others have been made fools of by the girls; but, this can never be with truth said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance,made a fool of myself.
Abraham Lincoln
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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
Sophocles
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Most Canadians don't understand the House of Commons. They turn on their televisions, see us yelling at one another, and dismiss us as a bunch of fools.
Jean Chretien
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Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools.
David C. Stark
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The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.
Martin Luther
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There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.
Norm MacDonald
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There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
Josh Billings
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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.
Ernest Hemingway
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The lower classes are such fools. They waste their money on the pools. I bet, of course, but that's misleading. One must encourage bloodstock breeding.
Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae
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I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of U.S. soldier is just the lie of fools.
Bowe Bergdahl