Best 132 quotes in «fools quotes» category

It means that you two, precious father and son, would be a pair of knaves if you had sense enough; but, failing in that, you are only a pair of fools!

It takes more than just awareness for us to change. It takes courage and humility and the willingness to occasionally feel like fools and laugh at ourselves.

It was said that the gods favored fools because they were entertaining to watch.

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

I was a fool, alone, preparing to do what every fool did at such times—I was going to a bar to drink myself smart.

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.

Malcolm Gladwell can’t help being a pinhead. He was probably born that way.

Most folks don't have but a few days to a week's worth of food in their houses at any given time. When they run out, they'll have to forage. Only the fools will forage in town. The smart ones will look on the outskirts.

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

Most of their lives, people are just waiting to be ambushed. ~ Brandon Hull

Never allow carping critics to deter you from success. Instead, silence them with it.

Love in fools is better than hate in the wise.

[One} who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.

Most races have a finish line, but some racists are running races where since they never hit the finish line, they never finish lying.

Once you learn to take the pain of admitting to yourself you were fooled, you increasingly become ready to take the pain to those that fooled you.

Only children, fools, and cowards would allow a company to treat them as if prices were set by customers.

Only a fool believes that nature's only purpose is to serve and obey.

Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism--unless the criticized isn't within earshot.

Only fools listen to their hearts. Only fools get attached. We wanderers get in and get out just in time.

Only someone who isn’t a fool stands a chance of not being bothered by being deemed a fool by a fool.

Only the foolish would think that wisdom is something to keep locked in a drawer. Only the fearful would feel empowerment is something best kept to oneself, or the few, and not shared with all.

Only those who are brainwashed and fools believe in the existence of a god. Those who are indifferent just pretend.

Out with it, Dunciad: let the secret pass - That secret to each fool - that he's an ass. The truth once told (and whereby should we lie?), The queen of Midas slept, and so may I. You think this cruel? Take it for a rule, No creature smarts so little as a fool.

On Stupidity - There is no such thing as a foolproof plan. If there are fools about, no plan is proof against them.

Philosophers, Poets and Fools have similar Consciousness

Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.

Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.

Real comedy is not when you laugh at an idiot, it's when the idiot laughs at you.

Secrets are foolish creatures, I have learned. No longer do I wish to play with fools.

Some people spend the best part of their lives living the dreams of others

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

Silence beyond being the answer to fools, is sometimes the answer of fools.

Sitting around fools increases your tolerance

Some fools are educated, rich, and/or famous.

Politics to me was the whining of an old braggart too proud to admit his faults and too vain to try something new. All of their agendas and manifestos were nothing but a lucrative offer to deceive the fools and encourage the clever in deceiving more fools.

So said Hair-Face, and they killed him, because, they said, he was a wild man and wanted to go back and live in a tree. It was very strange. Whenever a man arose and wanted to go forward all those that stood still said he went backward and should be killed. And the poor people helped stone him, and were fools. We were all fools, except those who were fat and did no work. The fools were called wise, and the wise were stoned. Men who worked did not get enough to eat, and the men who did not work ate too much.

Stupid women were lured into it and assured they would become young and beautiful if they let themselves be pummeled and pounded and smeared with sticky creams, and have their faces lifted and their stomachs flattened. They paid a lot of money to Madame Olympia, who would put a little bit of magic into the creams and ointments that she used so that at first they did look marvelous. But it was the kind of magic that wore off very quickly, leaving the women even uglier than before so that they would rush back to her and pay her more money and the whole thing would start again.

So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools.

So the carnival steams by, shakes ANY tree: it rains jackasses.

The ability to lie, paired with unaccountability, has made a near infinite amount of liabilities.

The lies they've convinced their eyes that they're seeing, will not mar the truth in my lens.

The past and fool are the most dangerous weapons that poison our mind and heart

There is a certain solid use in fools. It is not so much that they rush in where angels fear to tread, but rather that they let out what devils intend to do.

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.

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!

The magi, as you know, were wise men--wonderfully wise men--who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of exchange in case of duplication. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

The mistakes of the wise lead them to success. The triumphs of the fools lead them to defeat.

Therapy to life: Eat with the wise, and drink with the fools!

There are two kinds of fools: one who is a fool, and one who is afraid of looking like a fool.

There is a very thin line of demarcation between bravery and foolhardiness.