Fool Quotes

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

The heart is forever making the head its fool.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

I'd be a fool to be in this for the money.

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

We should not fool ourselves. We are not one of the world's top teams any more.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.