If I can fool a bug, I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.
I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.
I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.[Я вот дура с сердцем без ума, а ты дура с умом без сердца; обе мы и несчастны, обе и страдаем.]
Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain’t that a big enough majority in any town?
Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily — weak people, in other words…
Fools and wise folk are alike harmless. It is the half-wise, and the half-foolish, who are the most dangerous.
Anybody who has traveled this far on a fool’s errand, has no choice but to uphold the honor of fools by completing the errand.
And what is your definition of a fool? A man who doesn’t realize that Time, Structure and Flesh are being mostly wasted. Who then is a wise man? There aren’t any wise men, sir. Then there can’t be any fools, if there isn’t any night there can’t be any day; if there isn’t any white there can’t be any black.
All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.
All men are fools, and all men are knights, where women are concerned.
A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools, if we live long enough.
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.[Qu’un sot savant est sot plus qu’un sot ignorant.]
