Fool Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

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.