Quotes about fools
fools-and-foolishness good mix silly
Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: it's good to be silly at the right moment. (Odes, bk. 4, no. 12, l. 27) Horace
fools-and-foolishness lovely mix moment serious silly
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it's lovely to be silly at the right moment
fools-and-foolishness four pride taxed taxes-and-taxation three twice
We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness. Benjamin Franklin
fools good guess guy respectful saw steve suffer
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. Nolan Bushnell
fools hold idlers lay men mortal work
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
fools-and-foolishness money
A fool and his money are soon parted.
fools-and-foolishness metals pocket precious uses
RHADOMANCER, n. One who uses a divining-rod in prospecting for precious metals in the pocket of a fool.
fools itself life revenge sweeter
Revenge is sweet, sweeter than life itself - so say fools
fools men tools
Men have become the fools of their tools Henry David Thoreau
fools fools-and-foolishness
There are no fools so troublesome as those that have wit.
fools-and-foolishness life slave survey takes
But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool;And time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop. William Shakespeare
fools fools-and-foolishness next week
Next week we will be millionaires (Only Fools and Horses) David Jason
fools holiday idleness refuge weak
Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools Lord Chesterfield
fools-and-foolishness minutes takes twenty
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. Helen Rowland
fools-day doubt april-fools
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. Cynthia Heimel
fools-day months april
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly. Ambrose Bierce
fools looked sure
I wouldn't play it any differently if I had to do it again, ... I'm sure we looked like fools down there, but if I had to do it all over again, I would have aimed at the same target.
fools-and-foolishness judges maketh
He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
fools-and-foolishness high keeps pay people reasons until
There are reasons why people pay for high growth, and they typically overpay. It's a fool's game, and it keeps going until it doesn't keep going.
fools-and-foolishness
Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it? Alec Guinness
fools fools-and-foolishness men talk wise
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.
fools fools-and-foolishness learn men wisdom wise
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
fools god lovely poem poems poetry shall tree
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree Joyce Kilmer
fools god lovely poem poems shall tree
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree
fools fools-and-foolishness impossible learned path tread
It is impossible for the fools to tread the path of learned ones.
fools-and-foolishness liberation
Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness Golda Meir
fools fools-and-foolishness honest practices treachery wits
Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enought to be honest
fools-and-foolishness headed home looking win
We had to win or we would have headed home looking like fools. Sean Williams
fools-day april excited
Anybody who claims to be excited for April Fools' Day is probably a sociopath. John Oliver
fools fools-and-foolishness hundred learned men seen ten wise
Of learned Fools I have seen ten times ten, Of unlearned wise men I have seen a hundred
fools-and-foolishness hatred inflicted
A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
fools-and-foolishness good honest mainly mark wiser worse
A fool, but an honest fool, you remain, Peregrin Took. Wiser ones migth have done worse in such a pass. But mark this! You have been saved, and all your friends too, mainly by good fortune, as it is called. J. R. R. Tolkien
fools silence surprised
Are we the fools for being surprised that a silence could end with no sound? Dar Williams