Fool Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

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

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.