Fool Quotes

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.

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.

My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool.

Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.

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

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.

That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

I wasn't absolutely too sure where the Falklands was, and I didn't want to make a bloody fool of myself.

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.

I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.