Fool Quotes

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

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

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

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

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

The fool inherits, but the wise must get.

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.

Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

When someone's acting for a scene, they can fool the camera. But in everyday life, unless you're watching and censoring yourself every minute, or spending all your time in the company of ladies, what you feel is bound to show in your eyes.

I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.

I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

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

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.

It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.