Fool Quotes

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

The heart is forever making the head its fool.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

Only a genius can play a fool.

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

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.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.