Menu
  • Free Literature Study Guides
  • The Great Gatsby
  • Hamlet

Half Million Quotes Half Million Quotes
  • Free Literature Study Guides
  • The Great Gatsby
  • Hamlet

Foolishness Quotes

Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines everywhere.

– William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 1. Certainly there is a lot of foolery going on in this play, as the sharply aware Feste observes. Feste may carry the title of court jester, but there are a lot of other characters whose behavior patterns fit that of fools.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

– George Bernard Shaw

John Bull’s Other Island, Act 4.

For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.

– The Bible

1 Corinthians 1:25

My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.

– Bernie Mac

I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn’t have any foolishness about them.

– Colonel Sanders

Close