Fool Quotes · Page 67

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My take on celebrity is simply that some of us have to make a bigger fool of ourselves than others.

— Elliott Gould

I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.

— Billy Joel

I have been Foolish and Deluded, and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.

— A. A. Milne

Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?

— Obi-Wan Kenobi

“And the world re-ordered itself around me. I spoke each word carefully. 'You are so stupid.”

— Robin Hobb

“Though a man be wise and intelligent, he is a fool in the eyes of the ignorant.”

— Saadi

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

— William Blake

Satan fools and feigns, blows and bluffs, and we so often take his threats to heart and forget the "exceeding greatness of…

— Leonard Ravenhill

Everyone said, 'Emil, you are a fool!' But when I first won the European Championship, they said: 'Emil, you are a genius!'

— Emil Zatopek

The foolhardy are not necessarily stupid, for fools simply follow their imagination whereas the stupid have none.

— Maurice Carter

So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for…

— Charles Bukowski

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a…

— Anonymous

Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a vegetable…

— Randolph Bedford

Take advantage of this human boat; Free yourself from sorrow's mighty stream! This vessel will be later hard to find. The time…

— Shantideva

“A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.…

— C. S. Lewis

“No. The two kinds of fools we have in Russia," karkov grinned and began. "First there is the winter fool. The winter…

— Ernest Hemingway

He that Opposes his own Judgment against the Current of the Times, ought to be back'd with unanswerable Truths; and he that…

— Daniel Defoe

“I would not have Drool reading Cicero or crafting clever riddles, but under my tutelage he had become more than fair at…

— Christopher Moore

He had black hair anybody could see was dyed, and even had one long piece wrapped around his head in that way…

— Jeaniene Frost

Everything was red, the air, the sun, whatever I looked at. Except for him. I fell in love with someone who was…

— Alice Hoffman

I adore Life. What do all the fools matter and all the stupidity. They do matter but somehow for me they cannot…

— Katherine Mansfield

Better be a foole then a knave. [Better be a fool than a knave.]

— George Herbert

You can fool some people some times but you cant fool all the people all the time

— Bob Marley

I don't fool myself; I know I'm not a genius... I have good ideas, but also many great partners.

— Rick Owens

If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your…

— Seneca the Younger

“It's better to keep one's mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubts.”

— Diana Palmer

If you dont make mistakes, you are not wise; you are a fool.

— Vikrant Parsai

“When you are there for people who dont need you. They make fun of you and make you a fool.”

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them.

— Bruce Barton

“I don't want a new purpose. I want what's mine. I want my birthright.”

— Faith Erin Hicks

In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.

— Hilaire Belloc

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a foo

— William Shakespeare

Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don't fool.

— Anonymous

Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.

— James Russell Lowell

Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.

— Christopher Marlowe

Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.

— Patricia Wentworth

I go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable.

— Armand Assante