Quotes Tagged "fools"

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

Compromise is a stalling between two fools.

For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her.

Even the most ignorant fool can teach us something about life; particularly in temperament and manner.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved.

I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.

We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening.

If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.

Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.

A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

The fool who knows his folly Becomes wise by that fact. But the fool who thinks he's wise - He's called 'a fool' indeed!

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

What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.

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.