Fool Quotes · Page 92

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

— Mark Twain

Wise men say only fools rush in. But I can't help falling in love with you.

— Elvis Presley

And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.

— Sophocles

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

— Henry David Thoreau

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

— Norman Douglas

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

— William Faulkner

“If a man is a fool, the best thing is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.”

— Woodrow Wilson

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

— Robert Jordan

“The mind is a curious thing, Abby. We see what we want to see, we hear what we're hoping to hear. The…

— Shelley Peterson

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may…

— Benjamin Franklin

A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the…

— Leonardo da Vinci

There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.

— Bessie Smith

Those who endlessly praise the rank of martyrdom must first attain that rank! No invented rank is superior to the life! You…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

She wonders what fool ever said that it's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all -…

— Emily Giffin

Not one song on the charts is being played naturally. But when you go see someone live it's special. Even though you…

— Roger Glover

An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't…

— Pearl S. Buck

I have read so many books. And yet, like most Autodidacts, I am never quite sure of what I have gained from…

— Muriel Barbery

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted…

— John Muir

“Dink, my boy, I'll be a millionaire in ten years. You know what I'm figuring out all this time? I'm going at…

— Owen Johnson

Here and there among men, there are those who pause in the hurried rush to listen to the call of a life…

— Harold Bell Wright

“Young Bob Lincoln and Elmer Ellsworth . . . were cutting up in the office, and Lincoln reproved them. Bob replied by…

— Emanuel Hertz

“When you make a mistake. You can do a little song and dance, put on a little show and have everyone laugh…

— Vincent Edwards

The place whereon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its…

— Ambrose Bierce

Avoid the politic, the factious fool, The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave; The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason, Calls…

— Thomas Otway

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.

— Mark Twain

“It is better for some one to think you're a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.”

— Will Rogers

Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.

— George R. R. Martin

I'm genuinely a big softie, I put this front on, and I'm just a laid-back fool really.

— Troy Deeney

I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.

— Jack Black

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

— Anonymous

I am a fool, fools tend to follow their hearts amidst ridicule.

— Ellis

Crystal sincerity hath found no shelter but in a fool's cap.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

— Ben Jonson

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches fifty, and a fool if he doesn't drink afterward.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“I Wish I May I Wish I Might Not Make a Fool of Myself Tonight”

— J. MIkayla Robinson

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

— William Blake

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

— Ambrose Bierce

There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.

— Jacob Braude

but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house

— Darren Shan

“To Fitz and the Fool. My best friends for over twenty years.”

— Robin Hobb