fools quotes

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

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

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

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

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

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

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.