Quotes with fools

  • Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.
  • How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, but musical as is Apollo's lute, and a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, where no crude surfeit reigns.
  • Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.
  • People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
  • It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
  • There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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  • Douglas Adams A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
    ― Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Albert Einstein Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
    ― Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Voltaire It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
    ― Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Cato the Elder Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
    ― Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Alcuin of York At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
    ― Alcuin of York
    English scholar, clergyman and poet
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
    ― Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Havelock Ellis Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
    ― Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Voltaire Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
    ― Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Spinoza Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Bessie Smith There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.
    ― Bessie Smith
     
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  • Horace While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
    ― Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Cato the Elder Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
    ― Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Dale Carnegie Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
    ― Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Douglas Adams A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
    Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2012) 690
    ― Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Carl Rowan A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
    ― Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • Carl Rowan A minority group has arrived only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
    ― Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • Bob Dylan Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
    ― Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Dale Carnegie Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
    ― Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Aldous Huxley At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.
    ― Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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