Top 101 Fools Quotes

I’m telling the story, and if I can’t tell the story, I’m not going to sing it. And if I don’t agree with the story, and if I got to sing something that portrays me as something I’m not, then I’m not going to sing it either. I didn’t even want to sing Aretha Franklin’s ‘Chain of Fools.’

Audiences aren’t fools – their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.

I never, ever have seen media this way. It’s almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It’s making themselves look like utter fools. There’s no journalism, there is no media. There’s pure, full-fledged advocacy here.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.

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.

There’s no such thing as a foolproof system. That idea fails to take into account the creativity of fools.

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

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

I’m dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It’s just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don’t have time for these clowns.

If New York is a wise guy, Paris a coquette, Rome a gigolo and Berlin a wicked uncle, then London is an old lady who mutters and has the second sight. She is slightly deaf, and doesn’t suffer fools gladly.

Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

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

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is – the enormous prosperity of Fools.

We miss ‘House of Fools’ a lot. It felt a bit like a different and fresh show for British TV.

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.

I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time… love lavished on absolute fools. Love’s a charity ward, you know.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

I’d rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn’t afford to be.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs you of your skills and your judgment, and it blinds you to creative solutions. It’s the best-conditioned athlete, not the most talented, who generally wins when the going gets tough.

It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not prove he is right or they are not fools.

We are the worst of fools if we do not teach every child to become truly expert, deep readers.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

I feel like the fools who dream and who take risks are the ones who change the world.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it’s compounding a felony.

I never, ever, saw the evil Steve Jobs. He was always the most well-mannered and respectful guy I knew. And we got to be pretty good friends. He didn’t suffer fools gladly. I guess he didn’t think I was a fool.

We did make fools of ourselves, but people were into it.

Comedy characters that take themselves very seriously, but are actually fools, is so funny.

People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

It’s true I don’t tolerate fools but then they don’t tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that’s why I’m quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.

I don’t think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

I play ‘Just Dance’ all the time – actually my girlfriends and I have slumber parties where we actually do this on a monthly basis and make total fools of ourselves.

I hate people saying anything stupid. I don’t really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I’m not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.

We would be the worst of fools if we would ever lose this extraordinary capacity to go beyond the limits of past thought and past prejudices.

There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

I pray that all polar opposites learn to agape love, live, and work together as brothers and sisters – or perish as fools.

Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don’t understand truth, nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant? Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non-vegetarian?

If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts.

Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

My father believed, like Pericles, that a man’s genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.