The Fool Quotes

A grandmother is a person with too much wisdom to let that stop her from making a fool of herself over her grandchildren.

Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.

Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But Hating, my boy, is an Art.

How short life is for fools.

It's easy to be an educated fool.

A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

You will rarely make wise decisions if you surround yourself with fools

You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.

Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.

If you can't hide what you are going to do, do it so everybody thinks you are a fool.

It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

Luke Jermay is as devious as he's clever, and he's a Master at complication - with this take on TTTCBE he might just fool the Devil.

I am the King's Fool. He is the King-In-Wating. Let him wait.

Partiality in a parent is unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools.

It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.

You are a fool to speak of last great battles...for the last great battle is always the next one.

Tomorrow you'll be brave, you say? Fool! Dive today.

I am a child whose teacher is LOVE surely my master won't let me grow to be a fool.

What is the mirror of Being? Non-being. Bring non-being as your gift, if you are not a fool.

Each and every part of the world is a snare for the fool and a means of deliverance for the wise.

And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.

A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.

He who cannot learn by others' mistakes is stupid. He who cannot learn by his own errors is a fool.

If you focus too much on the fools, you will eventually become one.

Writing is hard for everybody except fools.

When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool

I'd rather look a fool than be right and fail to act.

... but any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life.

Prove to me that you're no fool Walk across my swimming pool.

Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.

Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.

A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.

The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.

Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.

One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.

The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

I laugh like a fool when I watch a movie that I've done several years down the road when it's on cable, i'll just watch and sadly laugh along.

I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.

The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.

Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.

There are as many fools at a university as anywhere? But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampthe stamp of university training, if you like. It is trained folly.

Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

Love makes fools of us all, big and little.

'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

You had measured how long a fool you were upon the ground.

Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.