Fools Quotes

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

William Blake

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Al Bernstein

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

John Churton Collins

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

Ilka Chase

Why is it that wherever I go, the resident idiot heads straight for me?

Gwynn Thomas

Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.

Gene Brown

In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool.

Yiddish Proverb

A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

Proverb

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Moli

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

Mark Twain

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Mark Twain

We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

Stephen King

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

Arthur Schopenhauer

On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

H. Allen Smith

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Samuel Butler

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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.

Desiderius Erasmus

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.

Desiderius Erasmus

Fools are without number.

Desiderius Erasmus

The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.

Alfred Lord Tennyson