Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.

There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.

While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

Why fools are endowed by nature with voices so much louder than sensible people possess is a mystery. It is a fact emphasized throughout history.

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better -- the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

The fool is always beginning to live.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.

What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.

A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

The great God endows His children variously. To some he gives intellect -- and they move the earth. To some he allots heart -- and the beating pulse of humanity is theirs. But to some He gives only a soul, without intelligence -- and these, who never grow up, but remain always His children, are God's fools, kindly, elemental, simple, as if from His palette the Artist of all had taken one color instead of many.

The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.

Lord, what fools these mortals be.

On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them.

It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.