Fool Quotes · Page 85

The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.

— William Blake

Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.

— Harry Anderson

Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death.

— Anonymous

“[Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.”

— George Bernard Shaw

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

— Saul Bellow

“spending a night with woman remember her name is fool”

— Lucas Ryan

Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.

— Baron de Montesquieu

“I have been called a fool as often as I have been called a prophet.”

— Robin Hobb

Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am…

— Og Mandino

It's so easy to play with love, so easy to fool someone, so easy to make someone cry. But it's so hard…

— Anonymous

He was the freeman whom the truth made free; Who first of all, the bands of Satan broke; Who broke the bands…

— Robert Pollok

“If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool.”

— Amit Kalantri

I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show…

— Lorrie Moore

She's a fool and don't I know it but a fool can have her charms. I'm in love and don't I show…

— Beegie Adair

And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool…

— Rudyard Kipling

Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the…

— Jonathan Swift

“Most folks don't have but a few days to a week's worth of food in their houses at any given time. When…

— Edward M. Wolfe

The word "necessary" is miserably applied. It disordereth families, and overturneth government, by being so abused. Remember that children and fools want…

— Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put…

— Mark Twain

What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery…

— Thomas Jefferson

I know what you are. I've always known from the beginning, Kushiel's Chosen. It is folly, to make claim on one whom…

— Jacqueline Carey

If Mr. Thornton was a fool in the morning, as he assured himself at least twenty times he was, he did not…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

I admit that my visions can never mean to other men as much as they do to me. I do not regret…

— Aleister Crowley

Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise.

— Bernard De Bonnard

Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to.

— Edna Ferber

All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.

— Margaret Atwood

The first rule to living in America is 'Stop tap dancing, you fool!'.

— Ryan Stiles

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.

— John Donne

I don't lie,cheat or steal...but I might choke a fool. Nobody's perfect !

— Ritu Ghatourey

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

— James Thurber

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

— Dean Koontz

Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.

— Benjamin Franklin

A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.

— William Osler

Fool you once, you are forgiven. Fool you twice, you're just a fool.

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

You will find many to like you if you keep making a fool of yourself.

— Vikrant Parsai

What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!

— Kurt Vonnegut

Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.

— George Herbert

The fool thinks he is wise and the wise thinks he is not a fool.

— Vikrant Parsai

Stiff-necked fools, you think you are cool to deny me for simplicity.

— Bob Marley