The Fool Quotes

Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.

Only fools pity survivors their scars and you should never kowtow to fools

I'd say my greatest weakness is impatience. I don't suffer fools well.

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

How to fool yourself into feeling younger: When you go to restaurants, always check a coat and a skateboard.

A thousand fools believe a lie, and it's good as truth.

Am I a fool to hope for kindness/support from someone u have given nothing but that to?

I am the fool, and must be the sufferer, if it be not of God.

You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.

There is nothing in this world that I am prouder of than my ability to feel, to survive and, yes, to be a fool for what I love and believe in.

I come alive, in front of the mirror, skipping and dancing and acting the fool. Dance is both escape and excitement.

Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it.

Who will sacrifice nothing, and enjoy all, is a fool.

Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.

Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.

For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.

Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.

The athletic fool, to whom what heaven denied of soul, is well compensated in limbs.

A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.

You are foolish, but without fools there would be no wisdom.

There is no fool to the old fool.

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?

He that comes in print because he would be known, is like the fool that comes into the market because he would be seen.

Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.

To work a fell revenge a man's a fool, if not instructed in a woman's school.

I admit I'm a fool for you, because your mine, I walk the line.

Tell me I'm a fool. I would not know how to believe it.

This is love that surrounds, only a fool without wisdom can see. Blind as I am in your eyes, my lady of dreams.

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.

If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool; in you it is a sign of the disarming simplicity which is the fount of all virtue.

Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.

What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which are so.

A WISE MAN never enjoys himself so much, or a FOOL so little, as when he is alone.

Man isn't a fool for his ignorance, but rather for believing things that are wrong.

Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all.

Fools, their wisdom weak, are their own enemies as they go through life, doing evil that bears bitter fruit.

For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.

I wouldn't know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago.

Those were the 'ifs' that kept me from making a fool of myself.

Fools fight; winners think.

The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.

I have your word?” “You trust my word?” “You’re an idealistic fool. Of course.

Woman, you are a thousand kinds of fool.

He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool.

Nothing shows the kind of fool you are as quick as your tongue.