Fool Quotes

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.

My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.

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.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool.

Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.

That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

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.

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.

Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.

Yes, I now that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them.

If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.