If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
As long as you've got serious investors who wish to put money into football, I applaud. It proves that football is attractive. What upsets me, what I find scandalous, is when clubs accept fools.
If you're a guy, you should get girls flowers all the time. They never get old and you can never get them enough. I'm never disappointed when I get flowers. I always thought guys who don't buy women flowers are such fools. All it takes is one. A little goes a long way with flowers.
Kids are no fools: they're very sophisticated, they don't miss a lot; they don't miss nuance.
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Our life is our life. If we waste it, we're fools.
Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
We women are fools to do so much for the man we love. And we forget to stand for ourselves.
There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.
There is something about sex that always brings out the funny in me. I think it's because we make such fools of ourselves over it.
I knew I wasn't going to be a rocket scientist - let's not be fools - but I wasn't going to be a bum.
I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category.
In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.
What is wealth? A dream of fools.
People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
You pity the fool because you don't want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won't have to beat him up. So that's why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don't know no better. That's why I pity them!
I've never been a big fan of making telepathy to the audience. That would be too much a wink in the eye. That would make people around me fools, right?
Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.
Audiences aren't fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
All the evils of France have been produced less by the perversity of the wicked and the violence of fools than by the hesitation of the weak, the compromises of conscience, and the tardiness of patriotism. Let every deputy, every Frenchman show what he feels, what he thinks, and we are saved!
God looks out for fools and babies.
