Fool Quotes · Page 75

If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

— Frank Herbert

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

— Anonymous

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

— Frank Wedekind

They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much

— Stephen King

Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down

— Eric Clapton

A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.

— Jay-Z

Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate…

— William Blake

Let us not fool ourselves - without Christianity, without Christian education, without the principles of Christ inculcated into young life, we are…

— Peter Marshall

Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you…

— Barack Obama

How tragic that the very thing that could set us free-playing the fool-is the thing we will not do. When we're afraid…

— Mike Mason

“Act – make an event. Smash the coordinates and see where the smithereens fly. Let in the madness, and be sure to…

— Hanif Kureishi

We have not the slightest idea that women are made of such light material that the breath of any fool or knave…

— Jane Swisshelm

I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three…

— Hugh Jackman

I wasn't absolutely too sure where the Falklands was, and I didn't want to make a bloody fool of myself.

— Denis Thatcher

One of the benefits of being a mature well-educated woman is that you're not afraid of expletives. And you have no fear…

— Judi Dench

“The clown figure has had so many meanings in different times and cultures. The jolly, well-loved joker familiar to most people is…

— Thomas Ligotti

The wedding vows are a license to be a complete jerk, with full knowledge that the person you married has agreed, no…

— Adriana Trigiani

Most investors are pretty smart. Yet most investors also remain heavily invested in actively managed stock funds. This is puzzling. The temptation,…

— Jonathan Clements

I was a fool!" Percy roared, so loudly that Lupin nearly dropped his photograph. "I was an idiot, I was a pompous…

— Anonymous

And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable…

— Emile Zola

But even friendship like our heroes' Exist no more; for we've outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes-- Except of course ourselves…

— Alexander Pushkin

morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move…

— Charles Bukowski

A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.

— Tom Wolfe

To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.

— Baron de Montesquieu

But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

— Basil Bunting

Fool a wise and mental powered ones then fooling a fool because you cannot defeat nature

— Andile Zmobe

There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.

— Edward Teller

Never argue with a fool, they will lower you to their level, and then beat you with experience

— Oupa

I made it this far, a fool with my foolish pride. Look at me what you see? A fool and his foolish…

— Young Jeezy

It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.

— Robert Jordan

“Love was always conditional: anyone who thought otherwise was a fool.”

— Callie Hunter

Don't tell a fool when it fools since by doing so you will be fooling than it.

— Nyakallo Lets'ela

You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself

— Abraham Lincoln

Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Fortune's fool! How we humans lie upon beauty like lizards upon a sun-baked rock.”

— Roman Payne

Every unhappy genius dreams to be in the place of a happy fool.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'd say my greatest weakness is impatience. I don't suffer fools well.

— Jeb Bush

Everyone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn't know came along and did it.

— Albert Einstein