No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

The music of ABBA is not that happy. It might sound happy, in some strange way, but deep within, it's not happy music. It has that Nordic melancholic feeling to it. What fools you is the girls' voices. You know, I do think that is one of the secrets about ABBA. Even when we were really quite sad, we always sounded jubilant.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

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.

Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached.

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

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.