If New York is a wise guy, Paris a coquette, Rome a gigolo and Berlin a wicked uncle, then London is an old lady who mutters and has the second sight. She is slightly deaf, and doesn't suffer fools gladly.
A. A. Gill
What is wealth? A dream of fools.
Abraham Cahan
We did make fools of ourselves, but people were into it.
Ad-Rock
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan Perlis
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein
At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
Alcuin
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.
Aldous Huxley
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!
Alex Trebek
For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
Alexander Pope
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
Alfred North Whitehead
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
Alice Walker
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.
Alison Brie
I pray that all polar opposites learn to agape love, live, and work together as brothers and sisters - or perish as fools.
Alveda King
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Ambrose Bierce
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.
Anacharsis
Silence is the wit of fools.
Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
Fortune, that favors fools.
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.
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
What I'm trying to do is fulfill what my father said, which is, 'We have to find a way to live together as brothers and sisters, or together we're going to perish as fools.'
Kids are no fools: they're very sophisticated, they don't miss a lot; they don't miss nuance.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.
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.
Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are 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.
House of Fools,' that was the first thing I was sad that we couldn't do any more.
We miss 'House of Fools' a lot. It felt a bit like a different and fresh show for British TV.
We miss 'House of Fools' a lot. We always enjoyed doing that; it felt a bit like a different and fresh show for British TV, so we always feel attached to those sort of things.
People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
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.
I play 'Just Dance' all the time - actually my girlfriends and I have slumber parties where we actually do this on a monthly basis and make total fools of ourselves.
The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.
With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.
