Foolishness Quotes

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

Jane Austen

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.

Oliver Goldsmith

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

Michael Korda

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

Thomas Brackett Reed

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

Geroge Lorimer

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.

C.S. Lewis

He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

Miguel de Cervantes

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

English Proverb

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.

John Updike

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.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Robert Frost

The fool is always beginning to live.

Proverb

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Bertrand Russell

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Bertrand Russell

How many fools does it take to make up a public?

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.

Gerald W. Grumet

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

Horace

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Honore de Balzac

Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.

Wes Smith