Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
'Only Fools and Horses' was just one of those shows that could keep on going and going, that excited me. 'Hartbeat with Tony Hart' and 'Rolf's Cartoon Club' were my huge favourites, though. I used to love drawing and always sent work in to the show.
I pray that all polar opposites learn to agape love, live, and work together as brothers and sisters - or perish as fools.
I like attractive people who aren't so terribly aware that they are attractive... people who aren't afraid to roll on the floor and make fools out of themselves.
Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
Silence is the wit of fools.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.
I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.
The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.
Polanski is a great film director - although the much-acclaimed 'Chinatown' has a muddled script - but his true talent is to make fools of his friends.
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself.
If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.
March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman gambler' when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely... There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.
It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.
The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!
Only fools are positive.
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Ukippers are the kinds of fools who haven't noticed they're sleep-walking towards fascism. Many UKIP candidates are of the age when their parents fought in the Second World War.
We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.
