The Fool Quotes

Sometimes a fool has talent, but never judgment.

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

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

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.

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

He who represents himself has a fool for a client

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

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

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

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

How tragic that the very thing that could set us free-playing the fool-is the thing we will not do. When we're afraid to be fools, we end up being afraid to be anything.

... it's always determined characters who make the greatest fools.

Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality; when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash.

Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.

I am comfortable playing the fool, I think.

One may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospects

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.

Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

Never call a man a fool; borrow from him

You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.

But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.

We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.

He that cannot reason is a fool.

Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows who've had success, to prove to audiences that you don't have to be a fool to become successful.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.

History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.

The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.

Go around asking a lot of dam fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them.

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 form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]

The greater the fool the better the dancer.

The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .

As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

When you start to become a movie star it's easy to believe that you are Superman. That can fool you. That's why I prefer not to pay much attention to fame.

Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.

I believe what Jesus said, but Jesus never said priests couldn't be fools.