Fool Quotes

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.

When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.

A naked woman in heels is a beautiful thing. A naked man in shoes looks like a fool.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

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

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

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