Fool Quotes · Page 79

Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.

— Robert Jordan

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.

— Israel Zangwill

Partiality in a parent is unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools.

— Roger L'Estrange

Cheating is a choice... Not a mistake. Don't be fooled.

— Anonymous

I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.

— Patrick Rothfuss

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.

— Leonard Maltin

All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little…

— Anderson Cooper

You can always tell a real friend: When you make a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

— Anonymous

He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his…

— Ambrose Bierce

Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes…

— William Shakespeare

Folks, Russia is perhaps the second most powerful nuclear country in the world. If you don't have dialogue, you have to be…

— Donald Trump

I can't fool myself into thinking that musically I don't need other people, whether it's as a foil or just to come…

— Dan Bejar

Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her

— Abraham Lincoln

It's better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

— Anonymous

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of…

— Henry George

I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying…

— Leonardo da Vinci

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill…

— William Shakespeare

Martin Luther, when he walked in the woods, used to raise his hat to the birds and say, ‘Good morning, theologians—you wake…

— Richard Wurmbrand

Criticism is an alluring substitute for creation, because tearing things down, unlike building them up, really is as easy as falling off…

— Martha Beck

A show like the 'Only Fool and Horses' Christmas special got 24 million viewers, so practically everyone in the country was watching.…

— David Jason

They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same…

— Saint Augustine

I fool around with guitar and I can fool around on piano. I don't really play either instrument although I can play…

— Frankie Laine

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

— Minna Antrim

Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

— Benjamin Franklin

For the turning away of the simple, shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

— Thomas Boston

Love works in a magical way but never be fooled by the promise of forever.

— Zaisha Malik

When a king creates an office, Providence creates immediately a fool to buy it.

— Jean-Baptiste Colbert

I'll be a fool or a wiseman, my darling, you hold the key. Anyway you want me, that's how I will be.

— Elvis Presley

Fool me once, strike one. But fool me twice ... strike three.

— Anonymous

Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.

— Harry Anderson

As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.

— Kabir

If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable?

— George Carlin

Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.

— John Selden

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?

— Salman Rushdie

“The wise man sees the fool & laughs & the fool never knows why”

— Jovie Sumner

As you have seen, I am being viciously attacked with lies and smears.

— Donald Trump

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

— Anonymous