Fool Quotes

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.[Лучше от дураков погибнуть, чем принять от них похвалу.]

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

Tricks and Treachery are the Practice of Fools, that have not Wit enough to be honest.

To my mind to be astonished at nothing is much more stupid than to be astonished at everything. And, moreover, to be astonished at nothing is almost the same as feeling respect for nothing. And indeed a stupid man is incapable of feeling respect.[По-моему, ничему не удивляться гораздо глупее, чем всему удивляться. Да и кроме того: ничему не удивляться почти то же, что ничего и не уважать. Да глупый человек и не может уважать.]

They have shut up all their fools in a house apart, to make sure that they are wise men themselves.[Они заперли всех своих дураков в особенный дом, чтобы уверить, что сами они люди умные.]

There are no fools so troublesome as those that have wit.

The World is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet every one has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the Affairs of his neighbour.

The truth is I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.