The Fool Quotes

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy.

The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.

I tried to put a bird in a cage. O fool that I am! For the bird was Truth. Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put Truth in a cage!

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.

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.

So, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.

The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.

I hold him but a fool that will endanger His body for a girl that loves him not.

Fools are not mad folks.

Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.

I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.

I'm not scared to look like a complete fool in front of people. It's just not one of my insecurities.

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.

There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.

An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two

For just once in my life, I'd like to get through a whole week without having to deal with some fool, white or black, who's got an attitude about the way I look.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

Stiff-necked fools, you think you are cool to deny me for simplicity.

I'm the kind of person, I think a lot about everything. Nothin' I can do about it. It's like, I'm a thinkin' fool. That's a big part of me.

"Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool."

Anyone who gets his or her political news primarily from the New York Times (which made the ethically challenged carpetbagger Hillary a senator) is a fool.

An expert is a damn fool a long way from home.

The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.

Anybody who doesn't think I want the Lakers to win is a fool. But I'm no homer.

One part brave, three parts fool!

Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love none We love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done!

It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.

Keeping up is a fool's game; seek advantage instead.

Never, ladies, marry a fool. Any husband rather than a fool. With some other husband you may be unhappy, but with a fool you will be miserable.

You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.

Life is not fair... Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.

Anytime you get an award as a coach, you've got to be the ultimate fool to think it wasn't your assistant coaches and all the players responsible for the award.

Flattery makes fools of the best of us.

If the fools do not control the world, it isn't because they are not in the majority.

It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.

...how could I, fool that I am, go on sitting in my office, or here at home, instead of leaping onto a train with my eyes shut and opening them only when I am with you?