Elizabeth I Quotes

Fools are not mad folks.

It needs brains to be a real fool.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.

To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.

If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.

Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.

Only fools need suffer to learn.

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

Sometimes a fool has talent, but never judgment.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

You have to be quite stupid to act.

... smart but not wise.