Fool Quotes

If you can't make 40% on your money in Russia, you're a fool.

I am the fool, and must be the sufferer, if it be not of God.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

You've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it goin' on.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.

I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.

With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.

You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.

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.

Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is a right of which the Soviet Union in this case has taken full advantage.

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.

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

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

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.

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.

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.