Fool Quotes · Page 29

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it…

— George Bernard Shaw

Being funny is my biggest differentiator, and I think I'd be a fool not to use that, and there's nothing I enjoy…

— Lil Dicky

Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and…

— Piers Anthony

I keep getting more and more ambitious. Over the years, to some degree, in some areas, I feel I've grown. In some…

— Woody Allen

There is an increasing market for mental hospital stuff. I am a fool if I don't relive it, recreate it.

— Sylvia Plath

I tried to put a bird in a cage. O fool that I am! For the bird was Truth. Sing merrily, Truth:…

— William Carlos Williams

You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.

— David Allen

Who was the Thief that she would love him? A youth, just a boy with hardly a beard and no sense at…

— Megan Whalen Turner

That's the spirit, one part brave, three parts fool.

— Brom

Only a fool will not change his plans when circumstances change!

— Glen Rambharack

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

— Chanakya

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no…

— James A. Garfield

Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes…

— William Shakespeare

I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was…

— Henry Rollins

“I wonder if there's a limit to what I will let them do, if there is something that would make me fight…

— Holly Black

If you play with a fool at home he'll play with you in the market.

— Vikrant Parsai

I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.

— James Blunt

The higher the yield, the higher the risk. A high yield is designed to attract investors. An outrageously high yield attracts fools.

— Nancy Dunnan

I always knew I was an excellent liar; I just didn't know that I had it in me to fool myself.

— Lauren DeStefano

For a long time, I thought that I was an enlightened parent by virtue of being an enlightened person. What a fool.

— Rumaan Alam

I thought [first girlfriend] was trying to make a fool out of me. Then I found out that she wasn't, and we…

— George Michael

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.

— Socrates

Any fool can make soap. It takes a clever man to sell it.

— Thomas J. Barratt

Life is only as meaningful as you fool yourself into thinking it is,

— Lily Collins

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe