Subject: Intelligence » Fools (Page 5)

Little things affect little minds.

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

(1741 – 1794) French writer

Get the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

(1902 – 1963) Danish actor

There’s a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore looking like an idiot.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

A fool and his money are soon married.

(1862 – 1942) American author & poet

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

(1809 – 1865) 16th U.S. president

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

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

Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are well-dressed fools.

(1741 – 1794) French writer

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

How many fools does it take to make up a public?

(1741 – 1794) French writer

People with narrow minds usually have broad tongues.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Psychic: An individual having an uncanny, seemingly supernatural, talent for extracting money from morons.

American author

Couldn’t find his rear with his hands in his back pockets

It ain’t what a man don’t know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain’t so.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

A fool in a high station is like a man on the top of a small mountain: everything appears small to him and he appears small to everybody.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

(1772 – 1851) American Presbyterian theologian & professor

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

(1689 – 1755) French philosopher & political commentator