Fool Quotes · Page 21

The fool inherits, but the wise must get.

— William Cartwright

Any guy who rejects a girl because he doesn't think she's pretty enough doesn't deserve a girl in the first place.

— Don Raj

I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.

— George Orwell

This is a sleaze bag murdering dog and he [O.J. Simpson] has played us for fools. And the worst thing he did…

— Geraldo Rivera

Wise people are in want of nothing, and yet need many things. On the other hand, nothing is needed by fools, for…

— Chrysippus

“Soon a whole guild of low-priced shrine keepers around Europe named their own pope - Boldface the Relatively Shameless, Discount Pope of…

— Christopher Moore

He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and…

— Philip James Bailey

When you have twin four-year-olds, you are able to dance like a fool, often. And I do.

— Neil Patrick Harris

Close your ears to all adverse suggestions. Never mind if people call you a fool and a dreamer. Dream on.

— Wallace D. Wattles

In our show, we try to think about consequences, not about tricking the audience or hiding things to fool the audience.

— Peter Gould

The warrior acts, the fool reacts.

— Dan Millman

Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.

— Beryl Bainbridge

The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.

— W. Somerset Maugham

A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

— Anonymous

Several people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Don't liken me to that [SOB]. Anybody that lets his public policies be mixed up with religious prejudice is a plain [GD]…

— Huey Long

--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others

— Philip Roth

A fool with a plan can outsmart a genius with no plan.

— T. Boone Pickens

All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.

— Hunter S. Thompson

He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

— Honore de Balzac

Faith is the fool's excuse.

— James Frey

Early in his life Mr. [Ezra] Pound met with strong, continued, and unintelligent opposition. If people keep opposing you when you are…

— Randall Jarrell

I think that we really fool ourselves about our ability to be safe and secure nowadays.

— Anna Quindlen

“Cucullus non facit monachum; that’s as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain.”

— William Shakespeare