309 Quotes About Fools

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

Most folks don't have but a few days to a week's worth of food in their houses at any given time. When they run out, they'll have to forage. Only the fools will forage in town. The smart ones will look on the outskirts.

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

She is at once warm and dismissive, a tone common among fools and mountebanks, rarely used by those who truly know.

99.99% of fools deny their foolishness. The rest underestimate it.

Some people are wise only when they are in public.

Pretending to be wise is way more difficult than pretending not to be a fool.

Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.

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