Fool Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

When someone's acting for a scene, they can fool the camera. But in everyday life, unless you're watching and censoring yourself every minute, or spending all your time in the company of ladies, what you feel is bound to show in your eyes.

I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.

I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.

It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.