Fools and Foolishness Quotes
73 quotations about Fools and Foolishness
What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.
A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool.
They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
The fool needs company, the wise solitude.
Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
Lord, what fools these mortals be.
The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.
I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt.
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
It is rude to silence a fool, and cruelty to let him go on.
Its quite true there's a fool born every minute. It's also quite true they don't die that fast.
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