Fool Quotes · Page 107

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

— Robert Morley

When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt…

— Thomas Paine

Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.

— Horace

Chance is the fool's name for Fate

— Fred Astaire

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.

— Neil Gaiman

Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did,…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“You know you have a problem on your hands when you ask someone how to spell “orange” and they ask, “The color…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

All that serves labor serves the Nation. All ^ that harms labor is treason to America. No line can be drawn between…

— Abraham Lincoln

I'm not educated; I'd be a damn fool if I was (educated)!

— Bob Marley

A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

— Anonymous

Those mutually opposed manifestos are written with the same eloquence, they breathe the same virtuous indignation, and one is just as sincere…

— Mikhail Bakunin

I bear a burden that might well try Men that do all by rule, And what can I That am a wandering-witted…

— William Butler Yeats

You little fool. You thought you could defeat the most powerful being on Earth.

— Anonymous

In acting, you have to fool yourself - you mess with yourself into believing things.

— Janhvi Kapoor

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.

— John Donne

When truth presents itself, the wise person see the light, takes it in, and makes adjustments. The fool tries to adjust the…

— Henry Cloud

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

— Francis Bacon

You can't make the people do what you want them to do. You've got to get everybody to see what you seein'…

— Mike Epps

A fool has not material enough to be good. [Fr., Un sot n'a pas assez d'etoffe pour etre bon.]

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Brains are still unfashionable for women to wear, and it has always been proof of women's superiority that the more intelligent a…

— Dorothea Dix

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of…

— Otto von Bismarck

A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.

— George Washington

People are fooled by the colour of my skin. I grew up on the north side of Fredericton in a Celtic culture…

— Measha Brueggergosman

I'm tired of saying, "How wonderful you are!" to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired…

— Margaret Mitchell

Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

— Joseph Conrad

I may play the fool at times, but I'm more than just a pretty blond boy with an ass that won't quit.

— Charles Macaulay

Only fools, pure theorists, or apprentices fail to take public opinion into account.

— Jacques Necker

Flattery makes fools of the best of us.

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

The fool who knows he is a fool is for that very reason wise. The fool who thinks himself wise is the…

— Anonymous

You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win…

— Robert Harris

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

— Anatole France

There's an expression in Yiddish, which is "der gelernte naar" - a "learned fool." You can know a great deal, you can…

— Mark Helprin

Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

— Zhuangzi

The right type of [leader] is democratic. He must not consider himself a superior sort of personage. He must actually feel democratic;…

— T. Coleman du Pont

A person who persistently insults others, can be forced to feel foolish if, he is continuously ignored.

— Senora Roy

There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.

— Bessie Smith

Look at us all - we are all of us lost and in all of our different ways of pretending, we all…

— Rich Mullins