Extremes Quote by Joseph Hall

Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.

— Joseph Hall

Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

It takes a very wise man to act the fool.

— Louis Walsh

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

— Anonymous

Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous.…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood…

— William Shakespeare

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

— Tony Windsor