Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

Intuition is reason in a hurry.

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Your library is your portrait.

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

Man is a dogs idea of what God should be.

Love is the most subtle form of self-interest.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

Rush Limbaugh is good for the party. Drive it all the way down, take it down as low as it can go, make complete fools of themselves, because it's always darkest before the dawn, and then maybe a moderate can come in and rescue them.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.