Character Quote by 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 confess his…

— Blaise Pascal

Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all…

— Oswald Mosley

I don't deal with fools terribly lightly, and I think under any definition the man's a fool.

— Tony Windsor

Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools…

— Joseph Hall

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever then the men who laugh at them.

— George RR Martin

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.

— Anonymous

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean,…

— Joanna Baillie

“And what does it mean - ridiculous? wWhat does it matter how many times a man is or seems to be ridiculous? Besides, nowadays…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fools are wise men in affairs of women

— Russyb