The Fool Quotes

nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.

Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.

The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.

It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all.

It's human nature to be optimistic. Any fool can enter a market, it takes talent to exit consistently and profitably.

A fool and his money are quickly parted.

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs.]

Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.

The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.

Today is April 1, April Fools' Day, a day that people try to fool their friends and relatives. Don't confuse that with April 15, when people try to fool the IRS.

He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool -- shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple -- teach him.

I'm a romantic fool. I always end up getting hurt.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.

The shame of fools conceals their open wounds. [Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.]

The fool knows after he has suffered.

An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong.

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

A man must be a born fool who voluntarily engages in controversy with Mr. Adams on a question of fact. I doubt whether he was ever mistaken in his life.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

I suffer fools gladly because I am one of them.

It's better to be silent than to be a fool.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.

Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

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

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.

Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

It's time to diet and exercise when you accept the fact that you can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time - but not while you're wearing a bathing suit.

I can't fool myself into thinking that musically I don't need other people, whether it's as a foil or just to come in and make real the ideas that are kind of vague and wispy in my head.

I'd Rather Be an Old Man's Sweetheart (Than a Young Man's Fool).

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.

Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to.

He who represents himself has a fool for a client

They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself.

I'd be a fool to surrender, when I know I can be a contender. And if everyone's a contender, then everyone could be a winner.

He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Sometimes a fool has talent, but never judgment.

We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile - The mind turns fool, before the cheek is dry

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.