Stephen Leacock Quotes

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

’Tis a gross error, held in schools,, That Fortune always favours fools.

Forbid a fool a thing, and that he'll do.

History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them.

Also consider that someday, when you’re dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.

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

Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?

Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.

I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them.

Here will I live in the rainy season, here in the autumn and in the summer: thus muses the fool. He realizes not the danger (of death).

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation.

You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you.

How short life is for fools.

Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.

We were fools and now we were driving to our deaths in a rental car. Janet Jackson was tinkling from the speakers, asking what we had done for her as of late

Only fools need suffer to learn.

It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.