Fool Quotes · Page 60

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot loose.

— Anonymous

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

— George Bernard Shaw

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

— George Eliot

If you don't allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.

— Charlie Munger

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

— William Shakespeare

More harm is done by fools through foolishness than is done by evil-doers through wickedness.

— Muhammad

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

— Frederick Lenz

“How broken the crown that encircles the mind of a fool.”

— L.H. Nail

“Ah,' thought the king sadly, shrugging his shoulders, "I see clearly that if one has a crazy wife, one cannot avoid being…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Wisdom is not in having resources, it's in knowing how to use them, when to use them & if to use them.”

— TemitOpe Ibrahim

“I know the difference between the confection of live as sung in a minstrel's tale and the sustaining bread of love in…

— Elizabeth Chadwick

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether…

— Demosthenes

“Why is it that at the very moment I need to appear graceful I stumble and fall like a klutz, as though…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Wrath jammed a finger in V’s face. “Don’t follow me. We clear? You don’t follow me.” “You stupid fool,” V said with…

— J.R. Ward

I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could…

— Philip Massinger

What I am trying to do is something different - an effect of reality, but what some fools call Impressionism, a term…

— Claude Debussy

Live loath'd and long, Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time…

— William Shakespeare

I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even…

— Gore Vidal

When I started Fool's Gold and producing consistent records that were like electro beats with rapping on it that was experimental and…

— A-Trak

To church in the morning, and there saw a wedding in the church, which I have not seen many a day; and…

— Samuel Pepys

A cigarette is a roll of paper, tobacco, and drugs, with a small fire on one end and a large fool at…

— Ann Landers

If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just…

— Ben Stein

To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to…

— Anonymous

Show me the person that calls another a fool, and I will prove the extent of his mediocrity.

— Michael Bassey Johnson

A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control of his mind.!!

— Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib AS

Franchot Tone is nuttier than a fruitcake, so don't let the genteel frosting fool you.

— Burgess Meredith

One may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospects

— Claude C. Hopkins

Wise men say, only fools rush in. Wise men are so slow.

— Bob Saget

“Ignorance is no reason with a fool for holding his tongue.”

— George MacDonald

It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.

— Gautama Buddha

A Every man has a king and a fool in him and the one you talk to reacts.

— Mike Murdock

If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.

— Sophocles

For when I fool the people I fear, I fool myself as well.

— Oscar Hammerstein II

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

— Alice James

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.

— James Russell Lowell

Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.

— Otto von Bismarck

Groves is a fool. Groves is a fake. I will never let him belittle me like he's done with Carl Froch.

— James DeGale

Any fool can talk, but not everyone can listen, receive, and process information.

— Cynthia Bailey

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.

— William Shakespeare