Fool Quotes · Page 71

“If a man is a fool, the best thing is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.”

— Woodrow Wilson

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

— Henry David Thoreau

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

— Norman Douglas

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

— William Faulkner

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

— Octavia Butler

Wise men say only fools rush in. But I can't help falling in love with you.

— Elvis Presley

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

— Mark Twain

And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.

— Sophocles

“After everything, you still want to believe that love prevails, that in the end there will be justice. That is an illusion,…

— Jessica Fortunato

“Things that are truly great need nothing from me, and to somehow think that they do speaks to my utter lack of…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

— George Bernard Shaw

I'd be a fool to say I wasn't interested in playing the Doctor but I honestly haven't heard anything at all.

— Tom Rosenthal

In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what…

— Chinua Achebe

According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed…

— Brendan I. Koerner

There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.

— Cynthia Heimel

I always love the court fool in Shakespearean times, in Henry VIII's time. The fool can say all kinds of stuff that…

— Cornelia Parker

Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am not a poor child, Lady Eleanor," Madelyne announced, letting her anger sound in her voice. "Duncan won't marry you. He…

— Julie Garwood

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

— Claude Debussy

Let me tell you about weakness! Killing the strong to prove your strength is foolish weakness. Killing fools is easy weakness. Killing…

— Victoria Hanley

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

It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar

— Christopher Paolini

No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself.

— James Cook

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

— Confucius

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.

— Mark Twain

“It is better for some one to think you're a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.”

— Will Rogers

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

— Robert Jordan

Crystal sincerity hath found no shelter but in a fool's cap.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

I am a fool, fools tend to follow their hearts amidst ridicule.

— Ellis

He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

— Ben Jonson

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

— Anonymous

I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.

— Jack Black

I'm genuinely a big softie, I put this front on, and I'm just a laid-back fool really.

— Troy Deeney

Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.

— George R. R. Martin

When a king speaks, the armies move. But when a wise man speaks, only the beard shakes.

— Vinoba Bhave

My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion.

— Casey Affleck

You're fooling yourself if you argue with a fool - others may not know the difference.

— Robert Paul