Fool Quotes

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

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 wasn't absolutely too sure where the Falklands was, and I didn't want to make a bloody fool of myself.

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.