The Fool Quotes

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

You've been acting like Jesus owes you a favor, but he's a little smart for you to fool.

I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.

In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.

A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.

And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust.

The constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

None are so busy as the fool and the knave.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

In war the first principle is to disobey orders. Any fool can obey orders!

Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.

Children and fools cannot lie.

Children and fools speak true.

Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.

Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

...Don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth.' Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of 'literature'? That means fiction, too, stupid.

I'm 84 years old. Don't let the altar-boy face fool you.

Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly.

Well then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?

A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.

A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.

It is true that a man who does this is a fool. I have only proved that a man who does anything else is an even bigger fool.

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

We do not run from the troubles and dangers that are truly ours, and it is better to learn what they are earlier than later, and if we don't run from the others, we are fools.

Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.

He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow man.

I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing.

To have too much forethought is the part of a wretch; to have too little is the part of a fool.

Fools do not understand men of intelligence.

I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.

All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]

A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.

I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself.

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!

Wer nicht liebt Wein,Weib und Gesang, Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang. Who loves not woman, wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.

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.

I didn't know what was going on at the start in the swirling wind. The flags were all pointing in different directions and I thought the Irish had starched them just to fool us.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.

What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly, Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think the greatest fool is man.

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

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.