Best fool & men Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly, Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think the greatest fool is man.”

Thinking Men Earth Water Sky Fool Creatures Paris Japan Swim Rome Creeps Iceland

Author:Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“That fame monster's a fool, man. It really is.”

Men Fool Fame Monsters

Author:Gucci Mane

“Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.”

“Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.”

Men Kind Has Beens Made Pain Interesting Moral Doubt Fool Angel Deny Obligation Could Have Been Most Interesting Immune Moral Obligation

Author:Mark Twain

“All that serves labor serves the Nation. All ^ that harms labor is treason to America. No line can be drawn between these two. If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.”

Ifs Men Two America Hate Nations Lines Fool Labor Harm Liars Treason Fleece

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Hunger makes a fool of a man.”

Men Fool Hunger

Book:H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…

Source: H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…

“When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool”

Men Law Religious Effects Produce Fool Convince

Book:The letters of Peter Plymley, essays, and speeches

Source: The letters of Peter Plymley, essays, and speeches

“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”

“In a world where God does not exist, any reasonable person must see that the propensity toward selfishness should be the most venerated of all human traits. From this it stands to reason that any man, knowing the total expanse of his existence to be finite, who does not devote every moment of his life to acts of pure selfishness, must be seen as nothing more than a fool.”

Men World Life Should Humans Persons Doe Reason Moments Existence Knowing Fool Pure Selfishness Reasonable Traits Finite Propensity Expanse

Author:Derek R. Audette

“The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.”

Men Littles Two Whole Science Lying Universe Path Wise Seeing Fool Lows Errors Former Wheels Latter Regions Lanes Footsteps Lofty Provinces Ruts Two Wheels

Book:The Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle

“Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he exists in nature, he is subject to its laws, he can not break free, he can not leave even in thought; it is in vain that his spirit wants to soar beyond the bounds of the visible world, he is always forced to return.”

Men World Want Giving Law Science Spirit Nature Born Imagination Natural Break Subjects Fool Return Giving Up Bounds Vain Visible Can Not Soar

Author:Baron d'Holbach

“There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice.”

Men May Turns Wise Fool Advantage Prejudice Accidents Fortunate Unfortunate

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool.”

Knows Men Fool Self Knowledge

Author:Zhuangzi

“Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.”

Men May Seems Fool Virtuous Modesty Blushing Virtuous Woman

Book:Works: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers Not Hitherto Published

Source: Works: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers Not Hitherto Published

“A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.”

Men Fool Vanity Folly

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.”

Men Age Fool Drink Envy Spite Void Flattery Poisonous

Book:The works of William Shakespeare

Source: The works of William Shakespeare

“What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach, Which pries not to th' interior, but like the martlet Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road of casualty.”

Men May Shows Eye Desire Force Teach Wall Fool Weather Multitudes Interiors Casualties Learning More

Author:William Shakespeare

“I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.”

Men Care Evil Wise Fool Caring Intellect Holiness I Care

Author:William Blake

“I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.”

Men Enough Remember Fool Passages Zeal Zealous Vicars

Book:The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“The fool wanders, a wise man travels.”

Men Wise Fool Travel Wander Foolishness Tourism Travel And Tourism Fools And Wise

Author:Thomas Fuller

“Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.”

Men Wealth Wise Materials Fool Amount Satisfaction Material Wealth

Book:The Choice: A Surprising New Message of Hope

Source: The Choice: A Surprising New Message of Hope

“The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.”

Men Wise Keys Fool Tongue

Author:Socrates

“Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.”

Men Wisdom Wise Fool Dependent

Author:Cato the Younger

“Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing.”

Men Energy Fool Settling Idleness Settling Down Fussy

Author:J. B. Priestley

“The house of a childless person is a void, all directions are void to one who has no relatives, the heart of a fool is also void, but to a poverty stricken man all is void.”

Men Heart Persons House Poverty Fool Void

Author:Chanakya

“It`s acceptable for men to act the fool. When women try, they`re considered aggressive and opinionated.”

Men Trying Fool Aggressive Acceptable Opinionated

Author:Madeline Kahn

“Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed,-chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. Few that fell trees plant them; nor would planting avail much towards getting back anything like the noble primeval forests. During a man's life only saplings can be grown, in the place of the old trees-tens of centuries old-that have been destroyed.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad.”

Men Wells Doe Dangerous He Man Fool

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.”

Men Silence Known Wise Fool Speech

Author:Pythagoras

“Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.”

Men Wise Imagine Fool

Author:Solomon Ibn Gabirol

“Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.”

Men Hours Sleep Fool Six Seven Eight Good Sleep Good Night Sleep Sleeping At Night

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.”

Ifs Men Doubt Written Fool Praise Confusion Damn Umpires

Author:Dylan Thomas

“A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.”

Men Fool Experiments

Author:Erasmus Darwin

“...it may be that there is no God, that the existence of all that is beautiful and in any sense good is but the accidental and ineffective byproduct of blindly swirling atoms, that we are alone in a world that cares nothing for us or for the values that we create and sustain - that we and they are here for a moment only, and gone, and that eventually there will be left no trace of us in the universe. A man may well believe that this dredful thing is true. But only the fool will say in his heart that he is glad that it is true.”

Thinking Men World Believe Wells Heart May Moments Care Beautiful Values Universe Left Existence Gone Fool Glad Atoms There Is No God

Author:Sterling M. McMurrin

“When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her temper, her money, their own money, or suitableness for the married life.... Ha, ha, ha! Let us fool in this way no more. I have been in love forty-three times with all ranks and conditions of women, and would have married every time if they would have let me. How many wives had King Solomon, the wisest of men? And is not that story a warning to us that Love is master of the wisest? It is only fools who defy him.”

“A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity.”

Men Wise Pride Fool Dignity

Author:Confucius

“It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the negative person' in a black and white way as many people do. A wise man may not understand it because, as a catalyst of wisdom, but not wise in his own eyes, even he can learn from and give back to fools. To think that an individual has absolutely nothing to offer to the table is counter-intuitively what the wise man considers to be 'the ignorance of hopelessness'.”

Source: Killosophy

“I think that there are excellent and poor thinking habits just as there are healthy and unhealthy eating habits; and when a man really knows how to think, you cannot necessarily assert that he thinks too much in a strictly negative connotation. Perhaps this is in a sense food for thought, whereas the other is fool for thought.”

Thinking Knows Men Poor Know How Too Much Fool Habit Healthy Eating Negative Excellent Unhealthy Connotation Eating Habits

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.”

Men Laughing Fool Intelligent Privilege Intelligent Man

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.”

Men World Evil He Man Fool Depends Laughter Salvation

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.”

Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies of the fool are known to the world, but hidden from himself; the follies of the wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world.”

Men World Has Beens Said Wisdom Lying Differences Known Wise Fool Folly

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms! Tosparethegrossness ofthenames, and to dothe thing yet moreseverely, isto drawa full face, and tomake the nose and cheeks stand out, and yet not to employ any depth of shadowing.”

Men Hard Faces Easy Term Fool Depth Noses Villain Cheeks Standing Out Rogues Knaves Blockheads

Author:John Dryden

“I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.”

Thinking Men Love Love Is Fool Slave Curious Sentiments

Book:A Long Fatal Love Chase

Source: A Long Fatal Love Chase

“Ho, Ho, Sir Surgeon. You are too delicate to tell the man that he is ill. You hope to heal the sick without their knowing it. You therefore flatter them. And what happens? They laugh at you. They dance upon their own graves and at last they die. Your delicacy is cruelty, your flatteries are poisons you are a murderer. Shall we keep men in a fool's paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumber from which they will awake in hell? Are we to become helpers of their damnation by our smooth speeches? In the name of God we will not.”

“Praise a fool, and slay him; for the canvas of his vanity is spread; His bark is shallow in the water, and a sudden gust shall sink it: Praise a wise man, and speed him on his way; for he carrieth the ballast of humility, And is glad when his course is cheered by the sympathy of brethren ashore.”

Men Way Courses Water Wise Humility Fool Praise Spread Speed Glad Vanity Canvas Shallow Bark Brethren Ballast

Book:Complete poetical works: containing: Proverbial philosophy, A thousand lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and miscellaneous poems. With a portrait of the author

Source: Complete poetical works: containing: Proverbial philosophy, A thousand lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and miscellaneous poems. With a portrait of the author

“A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.”

Men Wisdom Eye Wise Fool All Things

Book:Poems of King Alfred

Source: Poems of King Alfred

“Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.”

Men Fool Foolishness Good Sense Fools And Foolishness Foolish Man

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: "Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine?”

People Thinking Knows Men Wells Challenges Education Stupid Mines Pride Fool Claims Criticize Presumptuous Marius

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“God hath given to mankind a common library, His creatures; to every man a proper book, himself being an abridgment of all others. If thou read with understanding, it will make thee a great master of philosophy, and a true servant of the divine Author: if thou but barely read, it will make thee thine own wise man and the Author's fool.”