Fools Quotes

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Benjamin Franklin

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.

Benjamin Franklin

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

George Bernard Shaw

He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.

English Proverb

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

English Proverb

Its quite true there's a fool born every minute. It's also quite true they don't die that fast.

Source Unknown

It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

Source Unknown

It is rude to silence a fool, and cruelty to let him go on.

Source Unknown

What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.

Proverb

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.

Harold MacMillan

The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.

Thomas Shadwell

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

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.

Ibn Gabirol

No one but a fool is always right.

David Hare

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.

African Proverb

It takes 50000 nuts to put a car together, but only one to scatter them all over the road.

Darryl Somers

The fool has to do at last what the wise did at first.

Italian Proverb

Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.

Yiddish Proverb

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

Michel de Montaigne