Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. Votes: 4
Alan PerlisWise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Votes: 4
PlatoFools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination. Votes: 3
William Arthur WardFools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied. Votes: 3
Napoleon BonaparteLife with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking. Votes: 3
Benjamin FranklinFools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending. Votes: 3
Marie von Ebner-EschenbachFools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools. Votes: 3
Johann Kaspar LavaterFools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others. Votes: 3
Otto von BismarckOnly fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. Votes: 3
John Henry PattersonWise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something. Votes: 3
PlatoFools wait for a lucky day, but everyday is a lucky day for an industrious man. Votes: 3
Gautama BuddhaWise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something Votes: 3
PlatoFools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous. Votes: 3
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFools take criticism and dish it back. The wise take it and turn it to their advantage. Votes: 3
Michael HyattFools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve. Votes: 3
Stephen KingWe must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. Votes: 2
Martin Luther King, Jr.An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. Votes: 2
Ernest HemingwayThe trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. Votes: 2
Mark TwainThere are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon. Votes: 2
Samuel ButlerThe most trying fools are the bright ones. Votes: 0
Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-LiancourtAll places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.] Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroThere are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools. Votes: 0
Nicolas ChamfortSocialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws. Votes: 0
Bob DylanLove can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools. Votes: 0
Cecelia AhernRemember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk. Votes: 0
Philip SidneyWe're young, we're not monsters, no fools: we'll conquer happiness for ourselves. Votes: 0
Ivan TurgenevNo fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldFor Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeNo battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. Votes: 0
William FaulknerFortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneLogical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. Votes: 0
Thomas HuxleyPassion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools. Votes: 0
Jane Welsh CarlyleOnly fools, pure theorists, or apprentices fail to take public opinion into account. Votes: 0
Jacques NeckerAmbition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all. Votes: 0
Mark KingwellHeraldry has been contemptuously termed 'the science of fools with long memories.' Votes: 0
James PlancheThe greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them. Votes: 0
George R. R. MartinThe greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. Votes: 0
Winston ChurchillAny simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado. Votes: 0
Brandon MullFashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. Votes: 0
Charles ChurchillThe solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge Votes: 0
William CowperAlways remember... Rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots. Votes: 0
Ziad K. AbdelnourStick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools. Votes: 0
Simon CampbellSo many, though reluctant to admit it. Shun clever men, and rather suffer fools. Votes: 0
Ivan KrylovAt their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men. Votes: 0
Aldous HuxleyOnly fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawIf happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed. Votes: 0
William CongreveThough marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools. Votes: 0
William CongreveGod has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America. Votes: 0
Otto von BismarckThe three greatest fools of History have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote . . . and me! Votes: 0
Simon BolivarIt is impossible to design anything that is foolproof because fools are so ingenious. Votes: 0
Groucho MarxEven the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable. Votes: 0
William Ralph IngeThere are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics. Votes: 0
Umberto EcoThe surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools. Votes: 0
Doug LarsonRules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules. Votes: 0
Trenton Lee StewartIt's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked. Votes: 0
Lucy Maud MontgomeryAll men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree. Votes: 0
Nicolas Boileau-DespreauxOf all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareWe learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude. Votes: 0
Nassim Nicholas TalebDeprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever. Votes: 0
Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-LiancourtWisdom must yield to superstition's rules,Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools. Votes: 0
VoltaireThey call them fools, who are unable to resist the slightest chance love might exist. Votes: 0
Garth BrooksFortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance. Votes: 0
JuvenalEXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceBy fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull. Votes: 0
Johann Georg Ritter von ZimmermannThrust your head into the public street, to gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareIn the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen. Votes: 0
Ted KoppelOh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools. Votes: 0
Abraham LincolnIt is success that colours all in life, Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest. Votes: 0
D'Arcy Wentworth ThompsonMore harm is done by fools through foolishness than is done by evil-doers through wickedness. Votes: 0
MuhammadGreat men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy. Votes: 0
Luc de ClapiersThere are two fools in every marketplace; one asks too little, one asks too much. Votes: 0
Alan SugarA wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order. Votes: 0
Napoleon HillTo take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinThe fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry. Votes: 0
Ernest HemingwayOut here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work. Votes: 0
Scott WesterfeldThere are some very good people in television, but a lot of fools running it. Votes: 0
Philip GlenisterTo turn away a guest is poorest poverty;To bear with fools is mightiest might. Votes: 0
ThiruvalluvarIt seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoethePartiality in a parent is unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools. Votes: 0
Roger L'EstrangeOnly fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can. Votes: 0
Charles de LintIt is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFoolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools. Votes: 0
David GemmellThere are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't. Votes: 0
Josh BillingsThere exist a lot of questions that the fools can ask, and the intelligent cannot answer. Votes: 0
George PolyaNothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools. Votes: 0
Henri Frederic AmielSome of the best people i know are fools', Evanelle said. 'The strongest people I know. Votes: 0
Sarah Addison AllenControversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it. Votes: 0
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeTricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinNearly all of our disasters come from a few fools having the courage of their convictions. Votes: 0
Coventry PatmoreIf all fools wore white hoods, any crowd would look like a field of blooming buckwheat. Votes: 0
Austin O'MalleyNeither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. Votes: 0
William Lamb MelbourneTricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinSorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence. Votes: 0
George R. R. MartinGod rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were. Votes: 0
Mark TwainPower, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny ... Votes: 0
Charlotte CharkeEven fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes. Votes: 0
Robert JordanMany of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly. Votes: 0
Jorge Luis BorgesGreatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools. Votes: 0
Thomas OtwayThe stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteOne may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospects Votes: 0
Claude C. HopkinsWhen it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools. Votes: 0
Russell BakerThe suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools. Votes: 0
Francis QuarlesIn soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night. Votes: 0
Hilaire BellocYes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on. Votes: 0
James ConnollyHalf my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages. Votes: 0
Steven TylerI feel there is a strong bond between artists and children and all other sacred fools. Votes: 0
Gottfried HelnweinWhat is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists? Votes: 0
Catherynne M. ValenteTime makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us. Votes: 0
Eric Temple BellControversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it. Votes: 0
Oliver Wendell HolmesI worry about the men of your time, Grace. They all seem to be great fools. (Julian) Votes: 0
Sherrilyn KenyonLet us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. Votes: 0
Mark TwainThe world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places. Votes: 0
Bryant H. McGillThe company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithI have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about. Votes: 0
Edmund WilsonLook at 'em,' he said. 'Goddam fools.' 'Who?' said Ginnie. 'I don't know. Anybody. Votes: 0
J. D. SalingerIf the fools do not control the world, it isn't because they are not in the majority. Votes: 0
E. W. HoweI don't deal with fools terribly lightly, and I think under any definition the man's a fool. Votes: 0
Tony WindsorThe ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools. Votes: 0
James Russell LowellOnly fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends. Votes: 0
Philippa GregoryThe services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools. Votes: 0
Benjamin DisraeliOnly priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God. Votes: 0
Patrick RothfussThe main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible. Votes: 0
Bernard BaruchThe list of the bigots and the list of the fools are always perfectly the same list! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanTomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven. Votes: 0
PersiusNot only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all. Votes: 0
Lester B. PearsonScandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise. Votes: 0
William Benton ClulowTomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven. Votes: 0
Edward YoungIn the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages. Votes: 0
Georg C. LichtenbergScience has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand. Votes: 0
H. G. WellsWhat matter though the scorn of fools be given If the path follow'd lead us on to heaven! Votes: 0
Sarah Josepha HaleNay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeWe think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeThe greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets. Votes: 0
Washington AllstonMy program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them. Votes: 0
Bruce BartonAll things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well. Votes: 0
John Stuart BlackieMost fools think he is the wisest person but the most wise person thinks he is a fool. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaAnger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools. Votes: 0
David C. StarkI was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools. Votes: 0
Elsie de WolfeThere are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom. Votes: 0
Nicolas ChamfortYou're gon' have to say to your self, am I gon' believe what them fools say about me today? Votes: 0
Kathryn StockettIf it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldBattles I lose none I make crews run I get fools done, got ten fingers but only use one Votes: 0
Big LTake all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit. Votes: 0
Josh BillingsThe radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel. Votes: 0
Elvis CostelloHere cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever. Votes: 0
Charles LambIf you want to reduce the rats, use the cats! If you want to reduce the fools, use the books! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanMartyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.
E. Haldeman-JuliusThere are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.
George EliotA wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.
Jay-ZBut history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.
Kate MortonHowever stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
Nikolai GogolWell, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.
William ShakespeareTruth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Oliver GoldsmithINTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.
Ambrose BierceWe are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.
Luc de ClapiersFashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.
George CrabbeJournalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.
Roger MuddMost people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.
Ted NelsonA philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleThere are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.
Eric GillTiming the market is a fools game, whereas time in the market is your greatest natural advantage.
Nick MurrayWe've got to fool the fools, and plan the plans. We must rule the rules, got to stand the stands.
Pete TownshendSeveral people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses.
Edsger DijkstraWhen we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.
Herta MullerPeople have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.
Thomas Chandler HaliburtonMoney sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.
Walter WinchellAll men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.
George R. R. MartinHain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?
Mark TwainSome have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
Alexander PopeBut their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.
Basil BuntingVirtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.
ChanakyaAbuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
TecumsehFor the turning away of the simple, shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
Thomas Boston