Fool Quotes · Page 50

Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

— Bible

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

— Anonymous

Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

— Alexander Pope

There is no difference between a wise man and a fool when they fall in love!..

— Anonymous

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

— Frank Herbert

They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.

— Hesiod

I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.

— W. Somerset Maugham

We have not the slightest idea that women are made of such light material that the breath of any fool or knave…

— Jane Swisshelm

How tragic that the very thing that could set us free-playing the fool-is the thing we will not do. When we're afraid…

— Mike Mason

Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you…

— Barack Obama

Let us not fool ourselves - without Christianity, without Christian education, without the principles of Christ inculcated into young life, we are…

— Peter Marshall

Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate…

— William Blake

Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter; Oh no! the miserablest day we live There's many a better thing…

— Anonymous

Between the monster and the fool there are many people who walk the middle path with a dog at their heels, their…

— Ian Niall

Don't be such a fool, believing stupid promises which would only lead you to extreme insanity when it isn't accomplished.

— Dimple Andos

[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of…

— Homer

We have songs and we have smiles; that is the beauty of 3HO. We have many, many songs and we have very,…

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Its time we woke up,” pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The fact that many people overindulge, and lose themselves in excess, and make fools of themselves and act like idiots, is no…

— John S. Hall

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to…

— Baruch Spinoza

The message is pretty clear: Americans are sick and tired of the doubletalk coming out of Washington, of us going home and…

— Jim DeMint

“Well, he thought, you can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time, which…

— Spike Milligan

A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one. Once…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“You must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.”

— Richard Feynman

I worry about the men of your time, Grace. They all seem to be great fools. (Julian)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

— Aesop

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

— William Shakespeare

“Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Bullshit takes no genius, even fool senses its' foul.”

— Toba Beta

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

— George Bernard Shaw

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.

— Jean de La Fontaine

You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

— Nora Ephron

Coincidence. That's an explanation used by fools and liars.

— Lionel

Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes

— Charles Francis Richter

We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?

— Mignon McLaughlin

Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.

— Sophocles

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.

— Shadawcatt

One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.

— Vladimir Lenin

“Ask a sage, he will explain. Ask a fool, he will complain.”

— Toba Beta