Famous Fool Quotes
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
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 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.
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.
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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.
When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools.
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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.
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress but I repeat myself.
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
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.
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed.