The Fool Quotes

The most trying fools are the bright ones.

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.

A fool has not material enough to be good. [Fr., Un sot n'a pas assez d'etoffe pour etre bon.]

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.

Don Juan, in the teacings of Carlos Castaneda, makes the same point. You have to fool people into seeking knowlege. People will not do it of their own volition.

There are some great stories in The Second Ring of Power about how Don Juan and Don Genaro found their apprentices and what they went through to fool their students into seeking light.

Only the fool wants to go into battle to beat someone for the satisfaction of beating someone.

The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the fool, the way of someone who doesn't need to be noticed.

Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

To the fool-king belongs the world.

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.

The crazy thing about it is she'd take him back, but the fool in him that walked out is the fool who just won't ask.

If the traveler cannot find master or friend to go with him, let him travel alone rather than with a fool for company.

A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.

Here will I live in the rainy season, here in the autumn and in the summer: thus muses the fool. He realizes not the danger (of death).

As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters.

Making a fool out of yourself and putting it on the Internet is one of the best bonding experiences you could have.

A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.

The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.

This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.

Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase.

Only a fool has no regrets and I'm not a fool.

While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]

Better be a foole then a knave. [Better be a fool than a knave.]

If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles. [If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.]

A cunning woman is a knavish fool.

For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think himself a respectable man.

It needs brains to be a real fool.

A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . .

I thought [first girlfriend] was trying to make a fool out of me. Then I found out that she wasn't, and we went out. That's a very good example of how little confidence I had.

I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.

A laughing fool ... seems born for nothing but to show his teeth.

Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)

It's a fool boy who mocks a giant, and a mad world when a cripple has to defend him.

Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove.

I love you too, sweet sister. But you're a fool. A beautiful golden fool.

You little fool. Tears are not a woman's only weapon. You've got another one between your legs, and you'd best learn to use it. You'll find men use their swords freely enough. Both kinds of swords.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools.

Of course she is a fool, but so are all girls.