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.
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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.
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    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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