Fool Quotes

Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?

You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.

The Doobie Brothers' 'What a Fool Believes' makes me want to move. And I still haven't gotten over the Macarena. Who has?

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

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

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

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 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.

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.

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.