Famous Fool Quotes
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress but I repeat myself.
Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.
Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.
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.
However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
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.
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
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.
When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools.
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
