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- We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Speech at St. Louis, March 22, 1964
- To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Macbeth", Act 5 scene 5
- The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "As You Like It", Act 5 scene 1
- I met a fool i' the forest,
A motley fool. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "As You Like It", Act 1 scene 7
- The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "As You Like It", Act 1 scene 2
- Lord, what fools these mortals be!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Act 3 scene 2
- Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.
- Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)
- Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.
- Archibald Alexander
- Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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