Fools

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I have great faith in fools — self-confidence my friends will call it. ~ Edgar Allen Poe

Fools are those who have the quality or condition of being ignorant and confused about matters, or those employed in making jests about the general circumstances of ignorance and confusion which exists among people.

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  • Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.
  • For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
  • Every man is made a fool through his own wisdom
It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. ~ Neil Gaiman
  • Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
  • The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcilable foes to truth.
    • George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, in "Letter to Mr. Clifford, on his Human Reason"; also in The Works of His Grace, George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham (London: T. Evans, 1770) vol. 2, p. 105
  • The reason why fools and knaves thrive better in the world than wiser and honester men is because they are nearer to the general temper of mankind, which is nothing but a mixture of cheat and folly.
  • Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
  • It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
  • The world is filled with fools, but none of them considers himself one, or tries not to be one.
  • A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
  • I have great faith in fools — self-confidence my friends will call it.
  • Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.
  • Now and then there's a fool such as I am over you
    You taught me how to love
    And now you say that we are through
    I'm a fool, but I'll love you dear
    Until the day I die
    Now and then there's a fool such as I.
  • Who is the greater fool, the fool or the fool who follows him.
  • A young man sees a terribly venomous snake in his small village. Nervous, he watches the snake carefully until it leaves.The young man follows the snake into the forest. He clears the branches out of its path and helps it over obstacles. He even works to keep it fed. Many nights pass and still the young man continues to follow the snake. He even follows it into the sands of the great desert.In the desert, the snake eventually grows hungry. It turns and bites the young man, its poison quickly working its way into his system. Finally curious, the snake looks at the boy as he lays dying and asks, "Why were you foolish enough to follow me all the way out into the desert?"The boy looks back and replies, "Did I follow you? I thought I was leading you away from everyone else..." And then he died.
    • Jolee Bindo to Revan, in Star Wars, Knights of the Old Republic
  • No matter how long you teach a fool, he still knows everything.
  • Any fool can make a rule
    And any fool will mind it.
  • Fools rush in where angels fear to tread, and the angels are all in heaven, but few of the fools are dead.
  • Hope maketh fol man ofte blenkes.

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  • There's no fool like an old fool—you can't beat experience.
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