FOOL QUOTES II

quotations about fools

If all fools wore white hoods, any crowd would look like a field of blooming buckwheat.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


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

ANATOLE FRANCE

Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations


At thirty a man suspects himself a fool;
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;
At fifty chides his infamous delay,
Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve;
In all the magnanimity of thought
Resolves; and re-resolves; then dies the same.

EDWARD YOUNG

Night Thoughts


They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


I have great faith in fools -- self-confidence my friends will call it.

EDGAR ALLAN POE

"Marginalia"


Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanack


It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"Of Society and of Conversation", Les Caractères


To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

Parable of the Talents


Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

ALEXANDER POPE

An Essay on Criticism


He that will be his own master ... must often have a fool for his scholar.

JOHN THORNTON

Maxims and Directions for Youth


A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

Mostly Harmless


The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?

HENRIK IBSEN

An Enemy of the People


Yet with great toil all that I can attain
By long experience, and in learned schools,
Is for to know my knowledge is but vain,
And those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

SIR WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING

The Tragedy of Croesus


Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

Maxims


You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you.

DEAN KOONTZ

Fear Nothing


Better to listen to the wind ... than to waste time with the words of a fool.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Atreides


A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control.

BIBLE

Proverbs 29:11


Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should rather be adduced as a proof of her sagacity, when she helps those who cannot help themselves.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Though fools can censure others, they cannot live free of reproach themselves.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


If you would not be thought a fool in others conceit, be not wise in your own.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine