Fool Quotes

Fortune, that favors fools.

People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.

Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.

The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.

Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.

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

The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.

Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.