Fool Quotes · Page 70

Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the…

— Shirley Henderson

I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of U.S. soldier is just the lie of fools,

— Bowe Bergdahl

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a…

— Henry David Thoreau

A cheerful, easy, open countenance will make fools think you a good-natured man, and make designing men think you an undesigning one.

— Lord Chesterfield

A fool and his money are soon married.

— Carolyn Wells

This may come as a shock to some of you, but I have a slightly volatile personality. I don’t suffer fools well.

— Tucker Max

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

— Mark Twain

I told the truth, I didn't come to fool you

— Leonard Cohen

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

— Anonymous

Moses tried to separate his people from Pharaoh, and when he tried, the magicians tried to fool the people into staying with…

— Malcolm X

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For example, the Bible does say this is a proposition, "There is no God." But of course the context of Psalm 14:1…

— D. A. Carson

A man, well, he'll walk right into Hell with both eyes open. But even the devil can't fool a dog.

— Earl Hamner, Jr

People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb…

— Martin Wolf

And, like a fool, she kissed him back. Kissed him a way that would leave no doubt about the way she felt…

— Cinda Williams Chima

I remember once visiting an outdoor exhibition of sculpture in Arnhem, the Netherlands. One of the artists had placed this notice at…

— John Wijngaards

There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.

— Jacob Braude

To turn away a guest is poorest poverty; To bear with fools is mightiest might.

— Thiruvalluvar

Travelers never did lie, though fools at home condemn them.

— William Shakespeare

Silence is all the genius a fool has.

— Zora Neale Hurston

I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders…

— Alexander Pope

Sometimes you gotta ask yourself, are you being played for a fool?

— Anonymous

A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering…

— Gautama Buddha

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

— William Blake

Atlantis: Fabled. Mystical. Golden. Mysterious. Glorious and magical. There are those who claim that it never was. But then there are also…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them…

— Samuel Rutherford

Those were the 'ifs' that kept me from making a fool of myself.

— Kami Garcia

A fool is one whom simpletons believe to be a man on merit. [Fr., Un fat celui que les sots croient un…

— Jean de la Bruyere

I have fooled life and life has fooled me. We are quits. I say good-bye. Think sometimes in the hour of happiness…

— Anonymous

A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that…

— Anonymous

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

— Stephen King

Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it…

— Miguel de Cervantes

I found that pedals were too much to fool around with. You'd be halfway through a solo, and the batteries would go…

— Angus Young

People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“I don't want a new purpose. I want what's mine. I want my birthright.”

— Faith Erin Hicks

My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.

— Jonathan Swift

If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive…

— Olusegun Obasanjo

Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy motions lovers'seasons…

— John Donne

Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

— Otto von Bismarck