Men may live fools but fools they cannot die.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows who with all their stupidity had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

For passion be it observed brings insight with it it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons fools and idiots especially during youth.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

History is an account mostly false of events mostly unimportant which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves and soldiers mostly fools.

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

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

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

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

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

Experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other.

God has cared for these trees saved them from drought disease avalanches and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.