Fool Quotes

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

I'd be a fool to be in this for the money.

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

We should not fool ourselves. We are not one of the world's top teams any more.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.

I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.

My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool.

Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.