Quote: In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity. Author: Jean Baudrillard French Postmodern Philosopher, Writer
Quote: A fool and his money get a lot of publicity. Author: Al Bernstein
Quote: Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done. Author: Al Bernstein
Quote: Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit. Author: Josh Billings 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer
Quote: The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way. Author: Josh Billings 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer
Quote: There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t. Author: Josh Billings 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer
Quote: Every fool finds a greater one to admire them. Author: Bioleau
Quote: A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. Author: William Blake 1757-1827, British Poet, Painter
Quote: A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. Author: Nicholas Boileau 1636-1711, French Literary Poet, Critic
Quote: Greatest fools are the most often satisfied. Author: Nicholas Boileau 1636-1711, French Literary Poet, Critic
Quote: However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him. Author: Nicholas Boileau 1636-1711, French Literary Poet, Critic
Quote: Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools. Author: Gene Brown
Quote: There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon. Author: Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist
Quote: Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do. Author: Dale Carnegie 1888-1955, American Author, Trainer
Quote: He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals. Author: Miguel De Cervantes 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet
Quote: How many fools does it take to make up a public? Author: Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort 1741-1794, French Writer, Journalist, Playwright
Quote: When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it. Author: Ilka Chase 1905-, American Author, Actor
Quote: It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. Author: Marcus T. Cicero c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
Quote: A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy. Author: John Churton Collins
Quote: A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart. Author: Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher
Quote: The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them. Author: Isaac Disraeli
Quote: In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom. Author: Havelock Ellis 1859-1939, British Psychologist
Quote: Fools are without number. Author: Desiderius Erasmus c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist
Quote: In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant, a maid her mistress, a teacher his pupil, a friend his friend nor a wife her husband, a landlord his tenant, a soldier his comrade nor a party-goer his companion, unless they sometimes have illusions about each other, make use of flattery, and have the sense to turn a blind eye and sweeten life for themselves with the honey of folly. Author: Desiderius Erasmus c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist
Quote: The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men. Author: Desiderius Erasmus c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist
Quote: Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor. Author: Henry Fielding 1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist
Quote: There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured. Author: Henry Ford 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company
Quote: Most fools think they are only ignorant. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: Spinoza Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs of his neighbor. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light? Author: Maurice Freehill
Quote: A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. Author: Robert Frost 1875-1963, American Poet
Quote: There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him. 2. The man who knows, but doesn't know that he knows; help him not forget what he knows. 3. The man who knows not, and knows that he knows not; teach him. 4. Finally, there is the man who knows not but pretends that he knows; he is a fool, so avoid him. Author: Ibn Gabirol
Quote: Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. Author: Elizabeth Gaskell 1810-1865, British Novelist
Quote: It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it. Author: Oliver Goldsmith 1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright
Quote: The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. Author: Oliver Goldsmith 1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright
Quote: While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple. Author: Gerald W. Grumet
Quote: No one but a fool is always right. Author: David Hare 1947-, British Playwright, Director
Quote: When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. Author: Cynthia Heimel
Quote: Why fools are endowed by nature with voices so much louder than sensible people possess is a mystery. It is a fact emphasized throughout history. Author: Hertzler
Quote: Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment. Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet
Quote: The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance. Author: Michael Korda 1919-, American publisher
Quote: He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks. Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Quote: You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better -- the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read. Author: C. S. Lewis 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist
Quote: A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense. Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist
Quote: Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Quote: Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them. Author: Geroge Lorimer
Quote: Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long. Author: Martin Luther 1483-1546, German Leader of the Protestant Reformation
Quote: It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool. Author: Harold Macmillan 1894-1986, British Conservative Politician, Prime Minister
Quote: A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions. Author: Wilson Mizner 1876-1933, American Author
Quote: A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one. Author: MoliFre 1622-1673, French Playwright
Quote: Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist
Quote: Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread. Author: Alexander Pope 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator
Quote: A fool and his money are soon parted. Author: Proverb
Quote: The fool is always beginning to live. Author: Proverb
Quote: Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. Author: African Proverb Sayings of African Origin
Quote: He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin
Quote: If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin
Quote: Fools build houses, and wise men buy them. Author: English Proverb Sayings of British Origin
Quote: He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress. Author: English Proverb Sayings of British Origin
Quote: The fool has to do at last what the wise did at first. Author: Italian Proverb Sayings of Italian Origin
Quote: Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side. Author: Jewish Proverb Sayings of Jewish Origin
Quote: He who knows he who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child, teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep, wake him. He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise, follow him. Author: Persian Proverb Sayings of Persian Origin
Quote: What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning. Author: Spanish Proverb Sayings of Spanish Origin
Quote: A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. Author: Welsh Proverb Sayings of Welsh Origin
Quote: In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool. Author: Yiddish Proverb Sayings of Yiddish Origin
Quote: They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge. Author: Thomas Brackett Reed 1839-1902, American Republican Politician
Quote: The great God endows His children variously. To some he gives intellect -- and they move the earth. To some he allots heart -- and the beating pulse of humanity is theirs. But to some He gives only a soul, without intelligence -- and these, who never grow up, but remain always His children, are God's fools, kindly, elemental, simple, as if from His palette the Artist of all had taken one color instead of many. Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
Quote: The fool needs company, the wise solitude. Author: Ruckett
Quote: Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived. Author: Bertrand Russell 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist
Quote: If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. Author: Bertrand Russell 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist
Quote: The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience. Author: Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860, German Philosopher
Quote: A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself. Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world. Author: Thomas Shadwell c.1642--1692, British Playwright
Quote: He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Lord, what fools these mortals be. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. [Measure For Measure] Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks. Author: H. Allen Smith
Quote: Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine. Author: Wes Smith
Quote: The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. Author: Herbert Spencer 1820-1903, British Philosopher
Quote: The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered. Author: Sir Richard Steele 1672-1729, British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor
Quote: That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them. Author: Alfred Sutro
Quote: The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow. Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson 1809-1892, British Poet
Quote: I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: It is rude to silence a fool, and cruelty to let him go on. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Its quite true there's a fool born every minute. It's also quite true they don't die that fast. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum. Author: John Updike 1932-, American Novelist, Critic