FOOL QUOTES

quotations about fools

There are more fools than wise men, and even in the wise man himself there is more folly than wisdom.

CHAMFORT

The Cynic's Breviary


Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.

DEAN KOONTZ

Brother Odd


You can't argue with all of the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.

CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI

Eragon


Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!

éMILE ZOLA

The Masterpiece


Who's the more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him?

OBI-WAN KENOBI

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope


If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Proverbs of Hell


Men are born, fools are littered.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims


A man may tear a jewel
From a sea monster's jaws,
Cross a tumultuous sea
Of raging tides,
Or twine garlandwise
A wrathful serpent on his head.
But no man can alter
The thoughts of an obstinate fool.

BHARTRHARI

"A Man May Tear a Jewel"

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He who writes for fools always finds a large public.

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Essays


What makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

Light in August


A fool and his money are soon parted, but it is remarkable how many fools have money to part from.

EDGAR GUEST

Home Rhymes


A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

letter to Eleanor Parke Custis, Jan. 16, 1795


The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at
the mercy of every fool he meets.

WASHINGTON ALLSTON

Lectures on Art and Poems


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

WILLIAM BLAKE

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell


With fools forbear to argue--better strive to wake the dead.

BHARTRHARI

"On Fools"


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

MARK TWAIN

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn


The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

SAMUEL BUTLER

Notebooks


There are no fools so troublesome as those that have wit.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanack, 1741


Verily a prosperous fool is a heavy load.

AESCHYLUS

fragment


Who is a fool? He that rashly is carried hither and thither with every motion, that considereth nothing, regardeth nothing, nor suffereth himself to be corrected and warned of his evil doing; but headlong runneth as he began, forcing not whether he sink or swim, or what becometh of him; and who, as he knoweth not the word of God, so he passeth not on it.

THOMAS BECON

Prayers and Other Pieces of Thomas Becon

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