quotations about fools
If at first you don’t succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
W.C. FIELDS
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Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
"The Voyage to Vinland"
Because other people are fools, must you be so too?
MARCUS AURELIUS
Meditations
Fools and wise-folk are alike harmless. It is the half-wise, and the half-foolish, who are the most dangerous.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
Tho' marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
The Double Dealer
The difference between a wise and foolish man is this--the former sees much, thinks much, and speaks little; but the latter speaks more than he either sees or thinks.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
Too many men are afraid of being fools.
HENRY FORD
"In Bondage to a Reputation," Ford Ideals
It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous.
Resign yourself to be the fool you are.
T. S. ELIOT
The Cocktail Party
What ails the fool to laugh? Does something please
His vain conceit? Or is 't a mere disease?
Fool, giggle on, and waste thy wanton breath;
Thy morning laughter breeds an ev'ning death.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Emblems
Fools beget their own kind and here was the proof of it and that as only foolish women would have aught to do with them their progeny were twice doomed.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The Crossing
Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
Like gold in the hands of a savage are the sayings of wisdom in the mouth of a fool.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Even a fool learns something once it hits him.
HOMER
The Iliad
Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims