Fool Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

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.