Fools Quotes

All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

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

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Words are the money of fools.

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

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

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.

If silence be good for the wise, how much better for fools.

Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence.

If there were no fools, how would we recognize the wise.

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

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

Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight.

It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Wise men argue causes, and fools decide them.