Fool Quotes · Page 71

Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.

— Benjamin Franklin

Only a fool gives lectures on drowning during a drought.

— Vikrant Parsai

I used to worry I'd make a fool of myself, but I don't care what anyone thinks of me anymore.

— Peggy Lipton

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

— Benjamin Franklin

You've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it goin' on.

— Tyra Banks

I don't think you are a fool, but that's my opinion compared to that of thousands of others.

— Anonymous

The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Did Stanton say I was a damned fool? Then I dare say I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and…

— Abraham Lincoln

If I don't fool you, I'm not doing my job as a magician. If I make you feel foolish, I'm not doing…

— Jerry Andrus

Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions.

— Baltasar Gracian

I would be a fool to tell you that there was no fixing. You ask if wrestling is for real? Well, I…

— Bruno Sammartino

[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot.

— Groucho Marx

If there is a way to free ourselves from suffering We must use every moment to find it. Only a fool wants…

— 7th Dalai Lama

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

— W C Fields

I'm willing to make a fool out of myself in public. I'm also willing to make those mistakes that you're going to…

— Neil Gaiman

The man that gets drunk is little else than a fool, And is in the habit, no doubt, of advocating for Home…

— William Topaz McGonagall

Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman…

— Anonymous

A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is…

— Seneca the Younger

Acknowledging foolishness is a very powerful and important experience. We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one…

— Chogyam Trungpa

Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it be after his heart. But the intelligent man is he who can…

— Swami Vivekananda

Look at us all - we are all of us lost and in all of our different ways of pretending, we all…

— Rich Mullins

For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content…

— Robert Musil

He had a note excusing him from PE for the rest of his life because he had some kind of muscular disease…

— Rick Riordan

INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Stephen King

I trust you not to pull any April Fool's Day pranks because I trust you'll still think it's March.

— Anonymous

“Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves.”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.

— Germaine Greer

On adultery: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?

— Paul Newman

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

— Albert Einstein

It's better to live as your own man, than as a fool in someone else's dream.

— Martin Landau

Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?

— Cecil Taylor

Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.

— Francis Chichester

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The wiseman knows and questions but what the fool believes he sees.”

— Jason Versey

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and

— Snow Prince

Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

— IDK

Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!

— William Shakespeare

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

— Owen Feltham