Fool Quotes

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

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

When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.

You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

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

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.

A fool and his words are soon parted.