Fool Quotes · Page 97

Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

— Cato the Elder

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

— Albert Einstein

On adultery: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?

— Paul Newman

Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.

— Germaine Greer

I trust you not to pull any April Fool's Day pranks because I trust you'll still think it's March.

— Anonymous

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

— Stephen King

INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.

— Ambrose Bierce

Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool…

— Plutarch

“Any fool can criticise, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”

— Dale Carnegie

What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.

— Cinda Williams Chima

The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one…

— Maile Meloy

Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set…

— Andrew Pyper

An employer would be a complete fool to let an image like college partying influence their hiring decisions.

— Nick Denton

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long…

— Jonathan Haidt

Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble.…

— Ferdinand Mount

“Judge: But why would that make it possible for you to fool Monsieur Gallimard? Please--get to the point. Song: One, because when…

— David Henry Hwang

One thing should be put firmly. Where people have commented on that novel [The Paper Men], they generally criticize the poor academic,…

— William Golding

And this is Nymphadora-" "Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus," said the young witch with a shudder. "It's Tonks." "-Nymphadora Tonks, who prefers…

— Anonymous

Diogenes carried a bowl with him for years, but one day saw a man drinking from his cupped palm and declared, ‘I…

— Christopher Moore

“His face was so ravaged, it was like looking at death itself. Except for the smooth, silvered part of it. By creeping…

— Robin Hobb

It's how they've stayed popular for so long. By not doing anything that will make them look like fools. They never leave…

— Melina Marchetta

“Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves.”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I don't think you are a fool, but that's my opinion compared to that of thousands of others.

— Anonymous

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

— Owen Feltham

“You have my heart, but I won’t be some pathetic fool that comes when you wiggle your finger.”

— Janine Olsson

Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!

— William Shakespeare

Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

— IDK

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and

— Snow Prince

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?

— Cecil Taylor

Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.

— Francis Chichester

“The wiseman knows and questions but what the fool believes he sees.”

— Jason Versey

It's better to live as your own man, than as a fool in someone else's dream.

— Martin Landau

The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.

— Elvis Costello

'Tis hard if all is false that I advance, A fool must now and then be right, by chance

— William Cowper