Fools and Foolishness Quotes
73 quotations about Fools and Foolishness
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t.
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.
Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
How many fools does it take to make up a public?
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Fools are without number.
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Most fools think they are only ignorant.
Authors on Fools and Foolishness
African Proverb
Honore De Balzac
Al Bernstein
Josh Billings
Bioleau
William Blake
Nicholas Boileau
Gene Brown
Dale Carnegie
Miguel De Cervantes
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
Chinese Proverb
Marcus T. Cicero
John Churton Collins
Confucius
Isaac Disraeli
George Eliot
Havelock Ellis
English Proverb
Desiderius Erasmus