Fool Quotes · Page 169

I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools...

— Claude McKay

I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we…

— Giacomo Casanova

I rely on the promise, 'God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.'

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

Give fools the first and women the last word.

— George Horace Lorimer

I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics or the founder of a faith…

— Aleister Crowley

Yes,” said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way…

— Rebecca West

“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.”

— Stephen King

The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.

— William Blake

That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited…

— Charlotte Bronte

Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.

— William Benton Clulow

We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to…

— Ray Bradbury

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you…

— Junior Seau

“You are not my sunshine. Sorry. You're more like a gust of arctic wind that bursts in and blows out all the…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

— Elbert Hubbard

I mean any fool can hurl themselves at a climb that is beyond their abilities to safely negotiate. You may get away…

— Jeff Lowe

One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should…

— Gautama Buddha

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

That love at first sight should happen to me, was Life's most delicious revenge on a self-opinionated fool.

— Charles Boyer

If fifty men did all the work, / And gave the price to five, / And let those five make all the…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be…

— Longchenpa

It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining…

— Robert Greene

To have too much forethought is the part of a wretch; to have too little is the part of a fool.

— Lord David Cecil

I learned to dance at quinceañeras - big [15th] birthday parties for Spanish girls. It was always funny to bring the white…

— Channing Tatum

Silence is the best answer to a fool.

— Anonymous