A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
~ Wilson Mizner
Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
~ Karl Kraus
Every inch that is not fool is rogue.
~ John Dryden
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
~ Anonymous
He who lives without folly is not as wise as he thinks.
~ La Rochefoucauld
The poor schlemiel is a man who falls on his back and breaks his nose.
~ Jewish Proverb
None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
~ Samuel Johnson
Nature never makes any blunders when she makes a fool she means it.
~ Josh Billings
Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.
~ Robert Burton
It is said that a wise man who stands firm is a statesman and a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
~ Adlai Stevenson
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
~ Voltaire
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority for any town?
~ Mark Twain
For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Who loves not women wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long.
~ Martin Luther
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.
~ George Bernard Shaw
There is no chance for old fools.
~ Cree Indian Proverb
I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
~ Charles Darwin
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
~ John Muir
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
~ Horace
Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.
~ Spiro T. Agnew
Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
~ Barbara Smith
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
~ James Agate
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
~ Norman Ralph Augustine
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Words are the money of fools.
~ Thomas Hobbes
When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
~ Russell Baker
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
~ Alcuin
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
~ Edward Young
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
~ Albert Einstein
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
~ Wilkie Collins
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
