Fool Quotes

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.

Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

My feet have been my best friend for the last 40 years. I've just been a dancing fool on stage, and after awhile you just kind of wear them out.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

No one but a fool is always right.

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.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

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.