Zitat des Tages über Narren / Fools:
Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.
I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.
Words are the money of fools.
Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.
I cannot tolerate fools - won't have anything to do with them. I only want to associate with brilliant people.
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.
For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Fools are without number.
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
