quotations about fools
Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit;
And some errors never would have thriven, had it not been for learned refutation.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
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Proverbial Philosophy
Fools are very often found united in the strictest intimacy, as the lighter kinds of wood can be the most closely glued together.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
Fools are very often found united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.
WILLIAM SHENSTONE
Essays on Men and Manners
Old fools are greater fools than young ones.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Moral Maxims
He must be a thorough fool who can learn nothing from his own folly.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
Ten gods cannot change the opinion of one fool, especially if another fool agrees with him.
ABRAHAM MILLER
Unmoral Maxims
The man who is foolish at the termination of his life shall always remain a fool.
CHANAKYA
Vridda-Chanakya
The angels must tremble when a fool is in the right.
ABRAHAM MILLER
Unmoral Maxims
The difference between a puppy and a fool is this--the one is born blind and continues so for nine days only, while the other remains with his eyes shut all his life.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
WILLIAM GOLDING
Nobel Lecture, Dec. 7, 1983
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
Harper's magazine, Aug. 1990
When dunces call us fools, without proving us to be so, our best retort is to prove them to be fools, without condescending to call them so.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
EDWARD YOUNG
Night Thoughts
We must often consider, not what the wise will think, but what the foolish will be sure to say.
ARTHUR HELPS
Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
If at first you don’t succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
W.C. FIELDS
Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
"The Voyage to Vinland"
Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.
AESOP
Aesop's Fables
Children and fools speak true.
JOHN LYLY
Endymion
Because other people are fools, must you be so too?
MARCUS AURELIUS
Meditations
The learned Fool writes his Nonsense in better Language than the unlearned; but still 'tis Nonsense.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1754