Subject: Intelligence » Fools (Page 4)

Fools rush in… and get the best seats.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

The less a person knows, the more he wants to tell it.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist

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

(1741 – 1794) French writer

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

(1818 – 1885) humorist

The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

(1667 – 1745) Irish satirist & essayist

It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.

(1899 – 1995) humorist

I suffer fools gladly because I am one of them.

(1921 – 2001) Welsh comedian & singer

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

People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)

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

(1741 – 1794) French writer

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

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

(427 BC – 347 BC) Greek author & philosopher

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Intimacy: A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.

You’ve heard of people living in a fool’s paradise? … well, Leonora has a duplex there.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

(1797 – 1856) German critic & poet