111 quotes found
“If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking-glass.”
“The fool doth think he is wise but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
“A fool's bolt is soon shot.”
“Lord what fools these mortals be!”
“He who thinks himself wise O heavens! is a great fool.”
“We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.”
“A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.”
“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.”
“A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.”
“As a society we’ve progressed to a point where it is unacceptable behavior to knock someone down who is acting a fool. I teach my children to use their words when faced with a conflict. That’s what...”
“And the fools… well, the fools are there for us to fleece and then to show mercy.”
“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...”
“Malcolm Gladwell can’t help being a pinhead. He was probably born that way.”
“It was said that the gods favored fools because they were entertaining to watch.”
“For ye suffer fools gladly seeing ye yourselves are wise.”
“Many have been the wise speeches of fools though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.”
“Men trip not on mountains they stumble on stones.”
“If fifty million people say a foolish thing it is still a foolish thing.”
“There are two kinds of fools: one says 'This is old therefore it is good' the other says 'This is new therefore it is better.'”
“Here cometh April again and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.”
