Fool Quotes · Page 77

He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.

— Hesiod

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

— Frank Wedekind

The truth hurts, but believing the lie makes you look FOOLISH, and you'll still end up getting hurt.

— Sonya Parker

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

— C. S. Lewis

Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who…

— Jeremy Bentham

When you're arguing with a fool, you're the fool for even going back and forth.

— Justine Skye

Yeah, when you work with somebody that famous everybody wants to know what are they like or - but I know some…

— Mary-Louise Parker

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

— Paul Newman

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider…

— William Hazlitt

Don Juan, in the teacings of Carlos Castaneda, makes the same point. You have to fool people into seeking knowlege. People will…

— Frederick Lenz

Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her

— Abraham Lincoln

Consider the source...Don't be a fool by listening to a fool.

— Sylvester Stallone

I can’t help blushing and looking down at my feet. “It was nothing.” “It was literally everything to me.” I look up,…

— Pittacus Lore

Today I am amazed at the things our children have done and their wide range of interests. They are all living their…

— Bernie Siegel

Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

— Abraham Lincoln

Foolishness is not a burden, the reasoning behind it is what brings forth the suffering.

— Anonymous

“Good madonna, give me leave to prove you a fool.”

— William Shakespeare

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

— William Faulkner

If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to…

— Maya Angelou

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

— Mae West

Silver linings have been fairly thin on the ground during Covid-19, but the right to wear elasticated-waist nightwear in daytime - livening…

— Grace Dent

I gripped the stapler even harder and felt like a fool planning to battle a crazy man with a stapler that even,…

— Charlaine Harris

If any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou hast to spare; if he press…

— Walter Raleigh

Arty farty, you'll never fool your Aunt, who knew you picked your nose and wet your pants.

— Ray Davies

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

— Seneca the Younger

You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine…

— Billy Joel

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

— Martin Fowler

All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.

— John Stuart Blackie

When I got married in 1991, I had never been to a wedding, so I didn't know that my wedding was tacky.…

— Niecy Nash

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

— James Thurber

The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.

— Jimmy Buffett

I am indeed not her fool, but her corrupter of words. (Act III, sc. I, 37-38)

— William Shakespeare

Now listen. You can't fool all the people all the time-- but I want you to try.

— Andrew Tobias

There are two kinds of people: one who goes on thinking about the future, not bothering about the present at all. That…

— Rajneesh

We are all the time, from our childhood, trying to lay the blame upon something outside ourselves. We are always standing up…

— Swami Vivekananda

Fools are more healthy then the so-called wise. Thy live in the moment and they know that thy are fools, so thy…

— Rajneesh

Love is for fools. It is a surging of blood in the loins ... there is no mystery, and no magic. Find…

— David Gemmell

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

— Mark Twain

Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!" “But no living man am I!

— Anonymous

You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fever. You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop…

— George R. R. Martin