FOOL QUOTES V

quotations about fools


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Tho' marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.

WILLIAM CONGREVE
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The Double Dealer


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Fools and wise-folk are alike harmless. It is the half-wise, and the half-foolish, who are the most dangerous.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


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

MARCUS AURELIUS

Meditations


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

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims


Too many men are afraid of being fools.

HENRY FORD

"In Bondage to a Reputation," Ford Ideals


The difference between a wise and foolish man is this--the former sees much, thinks much, and speaks little; but the latter speaks more than he either sees or thinks.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs


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

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

"The Voyage to Vinland"


What ails the fool to laugh? Does something please
His vain conceit? Or is 't a mere disease?
Fool, giggle on, and waste thy wanton breath;
Thy morning laughter breeds an ev'ning death.

FRANCIS QUARLES

Emblems


It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous.
Resign yourself to be the fool you are.

T. S. ELIOT

The Cocktail Party


Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's


Like gold in the hands of a savage are the sayings of wisdom in the mouth of a fool.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Fools beget their own kind and here was the proof of it and that as only foolish women would have aught to do with them their progeny were twice doomed.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

The Crossing


Even a fool learns something once it hits him.

HOMER

The Iliad


Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims