The Fool Quotes

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.

You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.

How can you possibly be sympathetic to every fool on the planet? Just the other day, I heard a man whining about his hopeless love of cross-dressing. Call me unenlightened, but I started to laugh.

Scratch a king and find a fool!

Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.

A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.

The biggest fool may come out with a bit of sense when you least expect it.

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.

only a fool would argue with a fool!

The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.

A fool has not stuff enough to make a good man.

If there is a difference between what is said and what is done, only a fool believes what was said.

A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

Baseball is like this. Have one good year and you can fool them for five more, because for five more years they expect you to have another good one.

In India and other places, there are people who fool themsleves. They walk around all day saying, "Who am I? Who am I?"

All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

Give fools the first and women the last word.

The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.

It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.

It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor to feel shame loses Paradise himself.

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.

A hero knows it takes hard work and a long time to get published; a fool thinks it should happen immediately, because he thinks heÕs a hero already.

Let fools believe what fools believe.

Hard words are for fools and cowards.

For every inch that is not fool, is rogue.

After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him.

A fool has more ideas than a wise man can foresee.

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.

When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool.

The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly.

Regret is just a waste of time for fools.

Only fools mistake politicians for messiahs.

He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.

Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work

Pride is a fool's fortress

The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it

There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.

If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

Only a fool worries over what he can’t control.

Any fool can hide, few can play.

New York City gritty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty.