The Fool Quotes

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more.

I think I am worthwhile just because I have optical nerves and can try to put down what they perceive. What a fool!

Then you're a bigger fool than I thought. Since when has any man ever been worthy of the woman he loved? It's only by God's grace that they love us in spite of ourselves.

Fools who won't see the truth are deadly.

A fool harvests his opinions in the spring.

Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.

The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad.

Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.

People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.

One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.

Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good.

The fool rushed to certain conclusions. The middling man approached them warily, and with circumspection. And the wise man, perceiving them from afar, decided to go round another way.

Maybe I’m weak for music men. Maybe I’m weak, period. But I couldn’t deny I was charmed by his arrogant, fool-ish guise.

I've been a fool to allow dreams to become great expectations.

People are fools, not monsters

Never fear being a petty fool it means you ain't dying

Does Obama really want his legacy to be, ‘The president who was an even bigger fool than Neville Chamberlain’?

Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.

I don't deal with fools terribly lightly, and I think under any definition the man's a fool.

It seems like I have more in common - or hit it off better - with rappers than fools that are in rock music. It was always natural for me.

I love to fool my readers, but in a good way. If you've read any of my work, there's a good chance that at some point I surprised you.

The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.

With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.

She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference.

When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!

A fool's wild speech confounds the wise.

When you get the call from Quentin Tarantino, it's the call of a lifetime. You don't allow yourself to be vulnerable enough or to be fool enough to expect that phone call to happen, in reality.

Like most trends, at the beginning it's driven by fundamentals, at some point speculation takes over. What the wise man does in the beginning, the fool does in the end.

The only man you will ever get is some fool named Grady who falls asleep in his soup.

'Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there?' 'A fool tangled in a religious snare.'

Being young you have not known The fool's triumph, nor yet Love lost as soon as won, Nor the best labourer dead And all the sheaves to bind.

I bear a burden that might well try Men that do all by rule, And what can I That am a wandering-witted fool But pray to God that He ease My great responsibilities?

Since the universe is stupid, it's no wonder that social Darwinism tends to support, promote and finance the evolution of fools.

The fool inherits, but the wise must get.

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.

Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid, Force many a shining youth into the shade, Not to redeem his time, but his estate, And play the fool, but at the cheaper rate.

The fool has set in his heart that he can get more money through the tiring of his muscle and the starvation of his brain-but he can't.

A fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house.

I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won't have to fool around with it any longer.

It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.

Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs.

Only a fool does not look to explain his mistakes.

Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, "Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long."

Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.

You are a tedious fool.

The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.

Oh what fools we mortals are.

There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.

How every fool can play upon the word!