FOOL QUOTES V

quotations about fools

Too many men are afraid of being fools.

HENRY FORD

"In Bondage to a Reputation," Ford Ideals


My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

Harper's magazine, Aug. 1990


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


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


We must often consider, not what the wise will think, but what the foolish will be sure to say.

ARTHUR HELPS

Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd


Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's


When dunces call us fools, without proving us to be so, our best retort is to prove them to be fools, without condescending to call them so.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Like gold in the hands of a savage are the sayings of wisdom in the mouth of a fool.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


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


Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims


Fools always lead a mob.

PAUL H. YARBROUGH

"A Congress of Fools", Communities Digital News, May 6, 2019


Even a fool learns something once it hits him.

HOMER

The Iliad


It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous.
Resign yourself to be the fool you are.

T. S. ELIOT

The Cocktail Party


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