Fools Quotes

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Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. — John Tillotson
There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so. — Alexander Pope
The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its… — William Butler
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards becoming either estimable… — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
If wine disappeared from human production, I believe there would be, in the health and intellect of the planet, a void, a deficiency far more… — Charles Baudelaire
Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools,… — Plutarch
Who are a little wise the best fools be. — John Donne
Don't you long to shout to those youths who are bustling around you: Fools! Leave those worldly things that shackle the heart - and very… — Josemaria Escriva
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as… — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. — Alexander Pope
Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a vegetable pest; fools and… — Randolph Bedford
That morning I experienced vividly, if almost subliminally, the reality of change itself: how it fools our sentinels and undermines our defenses, how careful we… — Robert Grudin
We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an… — Jean Genet
Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so. — Elbert Hubbard
There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the… — Henry Ford
Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools. — Walter Winchell
And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and… — Miguel de Cervantes
Fear and anxiety were exploited by zealots and fools. — David Addington
For April Fools Day, someone played a really cruel joke on me. They stole ALL my mirrors and I had to go hours without seeing… — James Franco

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