What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what…

What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass.

— William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

“Don’t listen to the ramblings of fools,” he said, smiling grimly. “When it comes down to it, if they knew the truth, no one…

— Melika Dannese Lux

“They are mad; they are fools," said the Dog-man.”

— H.G. Wells

Fools!" said the man, stamping his foot with rage. "That is the sort of talk that brought me here, and I'd better have been…

— Anonymous

We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've…

— Ray Bradbury

“Look at 'em,' he said. 'Goddam fools.' 'Who?' said Ginnie. 'I don't know. Anybody.”

— J.D. Salinger

Fools, said I, you do not know, silence like a cancer grows.

— Simon And Garfunkel

“Fools!” said Bard. “Why waste words and wrath on those unhappy creatures? Doubtless they perished first in fire, before Smaug came to us.” Then…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

You need a name.” I covered the receiver for a moment. “We need a team name.” “Hunters,” Raphael said. “Valiant Knights of the Fur,”…

— Ilona Andrews

“The magi, as you know, were wise men — wonderfully wise men — who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented…

— Charles Dickens

Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

— Virginia Woolf

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

— Winston Churchill

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not…

— Anonymous

It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their…

— Roger Ascham

“Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs…

— Edmund Burke