The Fool Quotes

My take on celebrity is simply that some of us have to make a bigger fool of ourselves than others.

Solomon warned us not to rush into God’s presence with words. That’s what fools do. And often, that’s what we do.

Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.

Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.

No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.

The older a fool is, the worse he is.

Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.

The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.

An evil deed, like fresh milk, does not go bad suddenly. Smouldering, like fire covered by ashes, the evil deed follows the fool.

In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

To the counsel of fools a wooden bell.

Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.

My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.

Crystal sincerity hath found no shelter but in a fool's cap.

Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

Any fool can buy a company; just pay enough

When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.

Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.

Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.

You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry. "No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.

Fool of a Took!" he growled. "This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance.

Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick" -Pippin Took

The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]

Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.

They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.

Looking foolish does the spirit good.

Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.

Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.

I did not want to be taken for a fool-the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.

Don't look at people like they're fools. I don't want to be misunderstand...and I don't want to be a fool again.

Any damn fool can predict the past.

To laugh is to risk appearing a fool, to weep is to risk appearing too sentimental, to reach out for another is to risk involvement, and to expose feelings is to risk exposing one's true self.

To find his own salvation, a man must first find the fool locked inside himself and set it free.

Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.

It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as necessary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either.

We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.

Because other people are fools, must you be so too?

Anybody who can drive and doesn't come out of it a rich man is a fool.

To Jane Austen, every fool is a treasure trove.

Anyone who feels like a fool has made a good beginning.

The person who constantly studies without doing spiritual practice is like the fool who attempts to live in the blueprint of a house.

Do you want your name to live forever? You fool! Forget your name, try to save yourself! What use there is for you, if your name lives and you die? You fool!

God looks out for fools and babies.

Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.

When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was a mirror of my Self.

Only a fool would make the bed every day.

How many fools does it take to make up a public?

When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.