Fool Quotes

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.

Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and kind. It's a face that a certain type of woman might want to fool because, in its intensely old-fashioned kindness, the face says, I love you. Fool me.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'

Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

I don't fool with a lot of things that I can't have fun with. There's not much reward in that.

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

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.

So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off - and if you don't, you're a fool. You're earning all this money to support children whom you then don't see, which is absurd.

Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.

Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are.

It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.

If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.

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

Only a genius can play a fool.

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!