Fool Quotes

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters.

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

Don't hate me 'cause I'm booed a fool!

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.

I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.

A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they're uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong.

In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there.

More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves - they can't depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world.

The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.

He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.