Quotes with fools

Quotes 101 till 120 of 133.

  • Samuel Butler There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Henry Ford There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Dean William R. Inge There are two kinds of fools: One says, ''This is old therefore it is good.'' The other one says, ''This is new therefore it is better.''
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • William Shakespeare To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Og Mandino Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Persius Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
    Persius
    Roman poet and satirist (34 - 62)
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  • Johann Gottfried Von Herder Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.
    Johann Gottfried Von Herder
    German poet and theologian (1744 - 1803)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Jean Genet We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent - or they themselves - was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Martin Luther King We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Alexander Pope We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • William Shakespeare When we are born we cry that we are come.. to this great stage of fools.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Jean Paul Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Anacharsis Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.
    Anacharsis
    Scythian philosopher
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  • Benjamin Franklin Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Plato Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Mark Twain Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Buddha With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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