Fools Quotes · Page 28

Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.

— Wes Smith

“Making friends is a talent reserved only for clever people; as for fools, they always make enemies!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo

— Alexandre Dumas

Look what I’m dealing with, man, I’m dealing with fools and trolls.

— Charlie Sheen

“Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.”

— Proverbs 16:22 Bible KJV

Why do fools fall in love? I'll tell you why, because everybody else has simply got too much else to do.

— Jon Richardson

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

— Benjamin Franklin

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

— Michel de Montaigne

Others have been made fools of by the girls; but, this can never be with truth said of me. I most emphatically,…

— Abraham Lincoln

“I cannot suppose there is anybody here who would think it either a good life, or an amusing one, to sit with…

— William Morris

“That is for me decide, not you. It is said that only fools stand in the way of a new idea; I…

— Sarah Prineas

We are all fools blessed with the knowledge that certain events will come to pass no matter what path we take to…

— Alethea Kontis

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools -…

— Ron Fournier

“they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. ROM1.22…

— Anonymous

Were I to be angry at men being fools, I could here find ample room for declamation; but, alas! I have been…

— Oliver Goldsmith

You're brilliant,"he says."But you're a fool to stay with someone like me." I close my eyes at the touch of his hand."Then…

— Marie Lu

Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.

— Benjamin Whichcote

Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.

— Terence McKenna

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

— Agatha Christie

Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools.

— Gene Brown

True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

“The best don’t stick around when you treat them poorly, only the desperate do.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“Never honor the gods in one breath and take the gods for fools the next.”

— Sophocles

“It does not take much to make us realize what fools we are, but the little it takes is long in coming.”

— Flannery O'Connor

There are people in the world who begin by being fools and end in being knaves.

— Vikrant Parsai

We are the worst of fools if we do not teach every child to become truly expert, deep readers.

— Maryanne Wolf

“Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they are wise.”

— Socrates

At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

— Aldous Huxley

People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it.

— Victoria Legrand

Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.

— Scott Westerfeld

All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.

— Anonymous

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The foolhardy are not necessarily stupid, for fools simply follow their imagination whereas the stupid have none.

— Maurice Carter

“What would have been the fate of sages if there were no fools?”

— Ogwo David Emenike

The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others

— Tibetan Proverb

“The universe hiccups, and we poor fools try to figure out why.”

— Matthew Quick

ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.

— Ambrose Bierce

There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.

— Bessie Smith

If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.

— Chinese Proverb