51 Foolishness Quotes

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.

Every day, man is making bigger and better foolproof things, and every day, Nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think Nature is winning.

I'll publish right or wrong: Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

My only books Were woman's looks, And folly's all they've taught me.

The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge.

Silence is the virtue of a fool.

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.

wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a better fate than wisdom

These are fools that men adore; both their Gods & their men are fools.

Unos mueren porque sienten y otros viven porque no sienten. Y assi, unos son necios porque no mueren de sentimiento, y otros lo son porque mueren del.

On n'est jamais excusable d'etre mechant, mais il y a quelque merite a savoir qu'on l'est; et le plus irreparable des vices est de faire le mal par betise.

Human beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

Because they were idiots!

The Battle is endless...we who babble and froth at the mouth have been at it since eternity.

So they spoke, and both springing down from behind their horses gripped each other's hands and exchanged the promise of friendship; but Zeus the son of Kronos stole away the wits of Glaukos who exchanged with Diomedes the son of Tydeus armour of gold for bronze, for nine oxen's worth the worth of a hundred.

Of what is't fools make such vain keeping? Sin their conception, their birth, weeping: Their life, a general mist of error, Their death, a hideous storm of terror.

El futbol es popular porque la estupidez es popular.

If you treat me this way, then I will treat you like a great lord, and if you do not detect the irony in my actions, then who of the two of us is the fool?

We are all fools when one wise man appears.

He saw that he was young, but he did not hold it against himself. He also saw that he was happy, but he did not wish that he still felt that way. He remembered too well the pain of discovering how foolish he had been. He saw himself more as father had seen him, as a boy on a path of years, echoing childhood with every move, promising manhood also.

And ever since the Conquest have been fools.

H'aint we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

Humans are dumb. Ashamed to be human

I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

'Six hours sleep are enough for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.'

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.

'Damn fool question!'