Famous quotes containing the word fools:
““The work is done,” grown old he thought,
“According to my boyish plan;
Let the fools rage, I swerved in nought,
Something to perfection brought;”
But louder sang that ghost “What then?””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Better to die at the hands of fools than to accept praise from them.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)