#Foolishness Quotes

“You are a tedious fool.”

“More fools know Jack Fool than Jack Fool knows.”

“Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art." Feste: "But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool.”

“Thus may poor fools Belive false teachers.”

“How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!”

“They are hare-brain'd slaves.”

“A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.”

“If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.”

“The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.”

“Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.”

“This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practise As full of labour as a wise man's art For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.”

“The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.”

“It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.”

“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”

“The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.”

“What a fool I have been!”

“A fool and his money are soon elected.”

“Being young you have not knownThe fool's triumph, nor yetLove lost as soon as won,Nor the best labourer deadAnd all the sheaves to bind.”

“Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her did not agree. In a field by the river my love and I did stand, And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand. She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs; But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.”

“Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.”

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”

“The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.”

“In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.”

“Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?”

“...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.”

“I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.”

“Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.”

“Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.”

“Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.”

“A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.”

“A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.”

“It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.”

“You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.”

“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.”

“But old fools is the biggest fools there is.”

“I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.”

“Who would find out that I am a natural fool if I kept always cool and never let nature come to the surface? Nobody.”

“Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.”

“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”

“If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.”

“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.”

“Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.”

“Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which the other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately.”

“If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.”

“Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”

“The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.”

“I alone have the mind of a fool, and am all muddled and vague. The people are so smart and bright. While I am just dull and confused.”

“All places are filled with fools.[Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]”

“I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing.”