FOOL QUOTES IV

quotations about fools

O! I am Fortune's fool.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Romeo and Juliet


Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

"The Voyage to Vinland"


Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

ELIZABETH GASKELL

Wives and Daughters


The angels must tremble when a fool is in the right.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims


Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

EDWARD YOUNG

Night Thoughts


He must be a thorough fool who can learn nothing from his own folly.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.

WILLIAM GOLDING

Nobel Lecture, Dec. 7, 1983


When a fool dies there is much shedding of tears in the land whither he is bound.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims


Fashion! -- a word which knaves and fools may use,
Their knavery and folly to excuse.

CHARLES CHURCHILL

The Rosciad


There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

"Notebook F", Aphorisms


The difference between a puppy and a fool is this--the one is born blind and continues so for nine days only, while the other remains with his eyes shut all his life.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs


The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

Bobok


The man who is foolish at the termination of his life shall always remain a fool.

CHANAKYA

Vridda-Chanakya


Children and fools speak true.

JOHN LYLY

Endymion


Ten gods cannot change the opinion of one fool, especially if another fool agrees with him.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims


Because other people are fools, must you be so too?

MARCUS AURELIUS

Meditations


My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

Harper's magazine, Aug. 1990


If at first you don’t succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.

W.C. FIELDS


Too many men are afraid of being fools.

HENRY FORD

"In Bondage to a Reputation," Ford Ideals