Fool Quotes · Page 71

The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I…

— Marilyn Monroe

In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying…

— Jean Baudrillard

I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.

— Julie Andrews

The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.

— Frederick Salomon Perls

“Congratulations, he said. "That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen." His expression was a mix of awe and disbelief. "Ever.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

— Richard Stallman

Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with…

— Bernard Cornwell

The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there…

— Hesiod

He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good…

— William Wycherley

Better be a foole then a knave. [Better be a fool than a knave.]

— George Herbert

I went to visit a friend of mine, a writer name Troy Seal, a songwriting fool. He's had a ton of hits.…

— Donnie Fritts

That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the…

— Euripides

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain, so I spare you the inside view of my heart.

— Marian Hooper Adams

We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

— Ernest Hemingway

Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.

— Leon Trotsky

Sometimes we woke up and feel like a Guitar Master, sometimes we woke up and feel like a complete fool. but that's…

— Tommy Emmanuel

Traveling is a fool's paradise.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Earth bears no balsams for mistakes; Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool That did his will: but thou, O Lord,…

— Edward Rowland Sill

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do;…

— William Hazlitt

Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble.…

— Ferdinand Mount

Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs you of your skills and your judgment, and it blinds you to creative solutions.…

— Harvey Mackay

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

— Woody Guthrie

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And…

— William Shakespeare

My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.

— Dan Hill

The first and last duty of the lover of the game of baseball," Peavine's book began, "whether in the stands or on…

— Michael Chabon

Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always…

— Michel de Montaigne

Fools are wise until they speak.

— Randle Cotgrave

Don't let my facial expressions fool you. I try to stay poised and calm at all times, but I'm having a blast.

— Paul Millsap

A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer…

— Stephen King

Men who have sacrifice their well-being, and even their lives, for the cause of truth or the public good, are, from an…

— African Spir

Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s if possible.

— R. D. Laing

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks…

— Albert Einstein

Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.

— Quintilian

A man must be a born fool who voluntarily engages in controversy with Mr. Adams on a question of fact. I doubt…

— Henry Clay

I am a romantic fool, no doubt about that.

— Alex Turner

"How did you - " "Fool your guards? They're not very good. They forgot to check the ceiling for spiders." Valek grinned.…

— Maria V. Snyder

ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.

— Ambrose Bierce

One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the…

— Democritus

To the person who thinks the world is full of fools, look in the mirror.

— Vikrant Parsai