Fools Quotes

For a more than miffed Midnight, fate was for emperors, fools and soppy lovers: - fate was the self-important egotism of those doing well, the sheer unbearable arrogance of the living and loved.

Tom Conrad

A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

William Shakespeare

We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening.

Rachel Ward

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

Ruckett

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

Josh Billings

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Isaac Disraeli

The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.

William Shakespeare

The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. Measure For Measure

William Shakespeare

He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.

William Shakespeare

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.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.

Wilson Mizner

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.

Cynthia Heimel

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

Benjamin Franklin

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

Confucius

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