Fool Quotes

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

I don't fool with a lot of things that I can't have fun with. There's not much reward in that.

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.

So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off - and if you don't, you're a fool. You're earning all this money to support children whom you then don't see, which is absurd.

Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are.

It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.

If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.

I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

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.

Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!

The first rule to living in America is 'Stop tap dancing, you fool!'.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

What we define as a bubble is any kind of debt-fueled asset inflation where the cash flow generated by the asset itself - a rental property, office building, condo - does not cover the debt incurred to buy the asset. So you depend on a greater fool, if you will, to come in and buy at a higher price.

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.