Famous Fool Quotes
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress but I repeat myself.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.
However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools.
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.