Fool Quotes · Page 156

By their own follies they perished, the fools.

— Homer

Diets are a fool's errand.

— Evangeline Lilly

A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.

— William Osler

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

— Marcus Aurelius

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the…

— Joyce Kilmer

All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and…

— Bill Veeck

You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior,…

— John Waters

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.

— Samuel Butler

Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so,…

— Amy Vanderbilt

I got to sit back and carefully evaluate my next Lover-partner-friend cause I refuse to give any more of my time to…

— MsKee

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

— Thomas Fuller

A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.

— Frank Herbert

Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.

— Cleopatra

You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music. The thing about…

— Jerry Garcia

It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other…

— Nicholas Sparks

Knowing what you need doesn't always mean you know how to get it, though. I'd spent a long time hiding in my…

— Megan Hart

Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

— Alan Paton

Some people are confident because they are fools. Leonard had the look of someone who was confident because, so far, he'd never…

— Terry Pratchett

There's no exception to the rule, yes, everybody's somebody's fool.

— Connie Francis

Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life on this planet.

— John Fowles

The narrators get into trouble and make fools of themselves with their perversely impulsive fondlings of the language. These people have retreated…

— Gary Lutz

A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.

— David Foster Wallace

[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]

— Tacitus