Fools Quotes
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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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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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A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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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
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Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny.
Charlotte Charke
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If a man has gold, he lives with the terror that someone will take it away from him, so he builds walls around it. Then everyone knows where the gold is, so they come and take it. That’s the way it always goes, brother. Fools and gold, together.
Conn Iggulden
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I feel I do what I love, and the fools pay me for it.
Ernie Colon
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Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, The sport of winds; all these upwhirl'd aloft Fly to the rearward of the world far off Into a limbo large and broad, since called The paradise of fools.
John Milton
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I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.
Joshua Jackson
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Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
Norman R. Augustine
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The future is too good to waste on lies and life is way too short to care for the damnation of others as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong.
Bowe Bergdahl
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I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.
Plato
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Fools sit down and wait for an opportunity; sensible men make one.
Emile Gaboriau
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We are all fools with our sons. We wipe them and suckle them and all we expect is for them to be grateful to the end of their days.
Conn Iggulden
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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
Ivan Turgenev
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Sometimes angels rush in where fools fear to tread.
Cary Grant
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Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.
Ben Chifley
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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.
Evan Thomas
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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.
George Eliot
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Regret is just a waste of time for fools.
Kazuya Minekura
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.
John Milton