Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
—Frank Dane
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain—and most fools do.
—Dale Carnegie
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
—Solomon Short
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.
—Robert Benchley
To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.
—Albert Einstein
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time… love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.
—Lawrence Durrell
People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
—Patti Smith
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
—Herbert Spencer
Violence is for fools and emergencies. The less of a fool you are, the fewer emergencies you will have.
—John Maude
Fools are without number.
—Desiderius Erasmus
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
—Voltaire
A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
—Carl T. Rowan
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, / And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
—Juvenal
Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace.
—Paul Murray in Skippy Dies