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- His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- A way to a man's heart is through his stomach, that shit true as gold. You put some love in your food and a fool can taste it.
- Raelle Tucker, True Blood, Cold Ground, 2008
- Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
- Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005
- The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, it punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
- Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984)
- Anyone who goes through life trusting people without making sure they are worthy of trust is a fool. Yet there are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
- There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticized only by fools.
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
- Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.
- Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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