Fools Quotes · Page 21

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

— Aldous Huxley

“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

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

— Wes Smith

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

— Terence McKenna

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

— Benjamin Whichcote

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

— Agatha Christie

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without…

— Izaak Walton

“Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves…

— Anonymous

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me…

— Anonymous

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank…

— H. G. Wells

As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not…

— Blaise Pascal

“No. You’re asking me to support your stupidity. And you know how I feel about fools. I ate all the dumb ones…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

— Michel de Montaigne

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

“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

Men are fools who forget what really matters while time goes by.

— Janet Morris

“A fool is made more of a fool, when their mouth is more open than their mind.”

— Anthony Liccione

“Well, luck is for fools. It's all they have to hope for, poor devils.”

— Stephen King

I rely on the promise, 'God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.'

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.

— William Shakespeare

Rules are for the obidience of fools and interpretations of smart men.

— Colin Chapman

“Men are such thundering great fools. Even the sort who come along once in a thousand years.”

— Anonymous

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Josh Billings

“I knew they were thought of as fools. I also knew they were clever.”

— Mikhail Iossel

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

— William Shakespeare

Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart.

— Jack Ma

To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.

— Albert Einstein

“...For now I had five children by him: the only work perhaps that fools are good for.”

— Daniel Defoe

“Women are fools; they will marry anything that has a heartbeat just to have a man.”

— Fannie Flagg

“I would like to remind this audience that sometimes a majority only means that all the fools are on the same side.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

— Joseph Hall