Fools Quotes - Page 3

Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.

They dabbled in dark magic like finger painters in first grade art class, and then most of them were either killed by their creations or ran the other way from the nightmares they unleashed.

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

The unrecognized genius—that’s an old story. Have you ever thought of a much worse one—the genius recognized too well? ... That a great many men are poor fools who can’t see the best—that’s nothing. One can’t get angry at that. But do you understand about the men who see it and don’t want it?

People who smoke would have probably been regarded as fools or insane, if only a percentage of people who smoke smoked.

The fool hath said in his heart There is no God.

Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

Most people do not want to follow a leader, they want to command the leading of a servant.

It never hurts a fool to appear before anaudience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.

No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.

None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.

There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former.

Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.

Watch the fools! Watch them carefully! Learn their paths so that you can learn how to avoid them!

Children and fools always speak the truth.

I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

Silence is best reserved for the fearful and foolish.

A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.

A fool can't help but be a fool, but when others follow, he makes a fool of us all.

And the fools… well, the fools are there for us to fleece and then to show mercy.

We are all fools with our sons. We wipe them and suckle them and all we expect is for them to be grateful to the end of their days.

It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the negative person' in such a black and white way as many people do. A wise man may not understand it because, as a catalyst of wisdom, but not always wise in his own eyes, even he can learn from and give back to fools. To think that an individual has absolutely nothing to offer to the table is counter-intuitively what the wise man considers to be 'the ignorance of hopelessness'.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

When Jim Donell thought of something to say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible, perhaps because he had very few ideas and had to wring each one dry.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

There are bearded fools.

It's very simple. Liars initiate, haters carry forward, fools spread, idiots believe and mindful void.

A wise person is silent and rarely wants to show his wisdom. A fool is always vocal and uses every opportunity to show his foolishness.

All men are fools, and all men are knights where women are concerned.

I'd been at the mercy of a prick on a power trip, the kind of buttoned-up bantam rooster who gets off on control and then, when you resist him, tells you that you've got issues with control.

We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.

Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.

A fool's head never whitens.

The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.

Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?

Heaven is no permanent abode of morons even though they may gain entry by sheer virtuosity of their deeds."Ashoka Prasad(Hegelian Lecture)

Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.

Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you'll see is hate and jealousy, and you'll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you'll feel is regret.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority for any town?

A fool is a man who believes glory can be found at the tip of a sword instead of on the tip of his tongue. That is life’s cruel trick.

The fools among us are presented to be wise and the wise among us are presented to be fools.

A busy fool is fitter to be shut up than a downright madman.

If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.

I am a scientist, and as such I am proud to say that being stupid at times is a very human thing. Be proud to be stupid, be proud to be fool. Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect. I admit I am a fool, but at the very least, with each passing day I do my best to get lesser fool.

You men think old men are fools but old men know young men are the fools.

The fool who knows his folly Becomes wise by that fact.But the fool who thinks he's wise - He's called 'a fool' indeed!

I've never, nor shall I ever, mourn the loss of a fool. Losing a fool, is the same as gaining, retaining, and reaffirming my intelligence.

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

Fools commit suicide and think they're doing themselves a favor.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking-glass.

A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.

Errors were not only meant to be committed by fools.

His mindIt says survival of the fittest butHis soulRevival of the idiotsSo good riddance, dancing

Who loves not women wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

Men trip not on mountains they stumble on stones.

The are two kinds of people in this modern society. First and the majority are those fools who think they are wise, and second are the few wise individuals who know that they are fools.