quotations about fools
There are more fools than wise men, and even in the wise man himself there is more folly than wisdom.
CHAMFORT
The Cynic's Breviary
Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.
DEAN KOONTZ
Brother Odd
You can't argue with all of the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
Eragon
Men are born, fools are littered.
ABRAHAM MILLER
Unmoral Maxims
Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!
éMILE ZOLA
The Masterpiece
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Proverbs of Hell
A man may tear a jewel
From a sea monster's jaws,
Cross a tumultuous sea
Of raging tides,
Or twine garlandwise
A wrathful serpent on his head.
But no man can alter
The thoughts of an obstinate fool.
BHARTRHARI
"A Man May Tear a Jewel"
Who's the more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him?
OBI-WAN KENOBI
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
He who writes for fools always finds a large public.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Essays
What makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Light in August
A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
letter to Eleanor Parke Custis, Jan. 16, 1795
A fool and his money are soon parted, but it is remarkable how many fools have money to part from.
EDGAR GUEST
Home Rhymes
With fools forbear to argue--better strive to wake the dead.
BHARTRHARI
"On Fools"
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
WILLIAM BLAKE
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at
the mercy of every fool he meets.
WASHINGTON ALLSTON
Lectures on Art and Poems
There are no fools so troublesome as those that have wit.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1741
The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Notebooks
H'aint we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?
MARK TWAIN
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Verily a prosperous fool is a heavy load.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
Who is a fool? He that rashly is carried hither and thither with every motion, that considereth nothing, regardeth nothing, nor suffereth himself to be corrected and warned of his evil doing; but headlong runneth as he began, forcing not whether he sink or swim, or what becometh of him; and who, as he knoweth not the word of God, so he passeth not on it.
THOMAS BECON
Prayers and Other Pieces of Thomas Becon