Fools Quotes

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.

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.

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

Fools are without number.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

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.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

Fortune, that favors fools.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.