Fools Quotes - Page 3

Don't drive a car in the dream, else you won't drive it on earth. Don't wish to become, else you won't become. Don't associate with fools, else your ancestors will be insulted. Don't be addicted to wine, else your pocket will be empty. Don't be drunk, else you'll be attacked.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Friend," replied Michael Strogoff, "Heaven reward thee for all thou hast done for me!""Only fools expect reward on earth," replied the mujik.

To expect to be kissed having bad breath is the secret of a fool.

Dejan Stojanovic

For a more than miffed Midnight, fate was for emperors, fools and soppy lovers: - fate was the self-important egotism of those doing well, the sheer unbearable arrogance of the living and loved.

I'd been at the mercy of a prick on a power trip, the kind of buttoned-up bantam rooster who gets off on control and then, when you resist him, tells you that you've got issues with control.

As a society we’ve progressed to a point where it is unacceptable behavior to knock someone down who is acting a fool. I teach my children to use their words when faced with a conflict. That’s what civilized people do. All that is fine and good except for one small thing; we’ve enabled the fools......What if people could expect a measure of instant justice when they were out of order? The acts of thoughtlessness would decline exponentially. If you give people license to be fools then you are left to deal with fools. However, if you put fools on notice then they’ll be forced to snap to attention and act right or suffer the consequences. Think of it as an adult spanking.

Children and fools always speak the truth.

Wisdom is the greatest speaker in history;nature, second.Folly is the worst speaker in history;fools, second.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Let the fools hold on to their treasured stupidityLet yourself be safe in wisdom with much rapidity

Sitting around fools increases your tolerance

...that in former ages they had been as wise as they are in this present, nay, wiser; for, said they, many in this age do think their forefathers have been fools, by which they prove themselves to be such.

Margaret Cavendish

There is a very thin line of demarcation between bravery and foolhardiness.

Fools may have the greatest repository of knowledge but will never attain Wisdom.

Ignorance is a fools castle.

Anonymous

Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.

The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.

William Hazlitt

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves and wiser people so full of doubt.

Foolish minds will entertain you, but confuse minds will irritate you.

Philosophers, Poets and Fools have similar Consciousness

It's very simple. Liars initiate, haters carry forward, fools spread, idiots believe and mindful void.

Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I'm not a political Christian; for the most part I allow people even their vain, earthly rights. And I certainly don't see anti-Christians as bad or evil (as if they actually have the power to pose any kind of threat against God Almighty), but rather complete idiots I was commanded to love.

His mindIt says survival of the fittest butHis soulRevival of the idiotsSo good riddance, dancing

A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A wise person is silent and rarely wants to show his wisdom. A fool is always vocal and uses every opportunity to show his foolishness.

Debasish Mridha

No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles.

So said Hair-Face, and they killed him, because, they said, he was a wild man and wanted to go back and live in a tree. It was very strange. Whenever a man arose and wanted to go forward all those that stood still said he went backward and should be killed. And the poor people helped stone him, and were fools. We were all fools, except those who were fat and did no work. The fools were called wise, and the wise were stoned. Men who worked did not get enough to eat, and the men who did not work ate too much.

In history, as elsewhere, fools rush in, and the angels may perhaps be forgiven if rather than tread in those treacherous paths they tread upon the fools instead.

In history, as elsewhere, fools rush in, and the angels may perhaps be forgiven if rather than tread in those treacherous paths they tread upon the fools instead.

Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.

Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.

A fool can't help but be a fool, but when others follow, he makes a fool of us all.

DaShanne Stokes

All men are fools, and all men are knights where women are concerned.

George R.R. Martin

A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.

Always remember this, Henri. Men trade for profit. They are driven by greed. But debt is about fear, and fear is stronger than greed. The true power, the weapon that defeats all others, is debt. Fools search for gold. The wise man studies debt. That is the key to all business.

Edward Rutherfurd

But fear is no fit means to measure anyone, for fools have no fear, or so I've heard it said.

It never hurts a fool to appear before anaudience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.

Everyone gets scared at times. It's only the fools who won't admit it.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

Alvin smiled back, and kissed her. "People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That's nothing. We name them.

Orson Scott Card

Only fools listen to their hearts. Only fools get attached. We wanderers get in and get out just in time.

Shruti Upadhaya

Alvin smiled back, and kissed her. "People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That's nothing. We name them.

Orson Scott Card

Only fools listen to their hearts. Only fools get attached. We wanderers get in and get out just in time.

Shruti Upadhaya

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

Benjamin Franklin

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

Molière

I've never, nor shall I ever, mourn the loss of a fool. Losing a fool, is the same as gaining, retaining, and reaffirming my intelligence.

Justin K. McFarlane Beau

Only the foolish would think that wisdom is something to keep locked in a drawer. Only the fearful would feel empowerment is something best kept to oneself, or the few, and not shared with all.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

The are two kinds of people in this modern society. First and the majority are those fools who think they are wise, and second are the few wise individuals who know that they are fools.

Foolish men always believe that a little knowledge will give them control over the world, but it is no more than a display of their vanity.

A fool always finds something to complain about, and a wise person always finds something to appreciate.

Debasish Mridha

Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Only someone who isn’t a fool stands a chance of not being bothered by being deemed a fool by a fool.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the negative person' in such a black and white way as many people do. A wise man may not understand it because, as a catalyst of wisdom, but not always wise in his own eyes, even he can learn from and give back to fools. To think that an individual has absolutely nothing to offer to the table is counter-intuitively what the wise man considers to be 'the ignorance of hopelessness'.

Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.

Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you'll see is hate and jealousy, and you'll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you'll feel is regret.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Choose your counsel, company and companions wisely: beware seeking wise words of advice from a fool or expecting informed opinions or decisions from the ignorant.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I am a scientist, and as such I am proud to say that being stupid at times is a very human thing. Be proud to be stupid, be proud to be fool. Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect. I admit I am a fool, but at the very least, with each passing day I do my best to get lesser fool.

Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect.

Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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