Fool Quotes · Page 72

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

— Edward Young

A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured.

— Marcel Proust

We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

— Ernest Hemingway

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

— Hunter S. Thompson

“better keep your mouth shut and seem stupid than open it and remove all doubt.”

— Emma Donoghue

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.

— John Dryden

We should not fool ourselves. We are not one of the world's top teams any more.

— Franz Beckenbauer

Knock my soul like we be callin black fool. I mean devil knows you prolly fucked another dude.

— Flo Rida

I've learned that while I'd be a fool not to stay open to the advice and experiences of the smart, amazing people…

— Alicia Keys

“I firmly believe that if you can't fool all of the people all of the time you should start breeding them for…

— Dave Sim

Any man, you'll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool.

— Julia Quinn

There is nothing in this world that I am prouder of than my ability to feel, to survive and, yes, to be…

— Jodie Foster

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les…

— Jean de La Fontaine

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

— Martin Fowler

"How did you - " "Fool your guards? They're not very good. They forgot to check the ceiling for spiders." Valek grinned.…

— Maria V. Snyder

I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good. I know too much to be good. I know myself.…

— Margaret Atwood

Much as I admire Tolkien, I once again always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence…

— George R. R. Martin

One should marry only when one is wise enough. Marriage is not for young people. For young people is to fool around.…

— Rajneesh

How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we…

— Horace Walpole

There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of…

— Mark Matousek

...all the answers are but waiting for us while we, poor fools, ask questions and wait for the secrets of God to…

— Muhammad Asad

Ideas are somewhat like babies - they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative…

— Peter Drucker

There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom. The glib supposition of utilizing atomic energy when our…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

“Society's goal is to make us less foolish. From the cradle to grave the pressure is on: "Be normal!" Our inner fool…

— Mark Batterson

What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to avenge myself!

— Alexandre Dumas

I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.

— Steve Martin

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

— Oscar Wilde

I am the fool, and must be the sufferer, if it be not of God.

— Joanna Southcott

I would be a fool to say I enjoyed being in borstal, but when I was there I had a great time.

— Keith Allen

Stop letting Grey's Anatomy' fool you into doing pre-med.

— Bowen Yang

Whoever said the soul and the body met in the pineal gland was a fool. It's the asshole, stupid.

— André Aciman

Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet.

— Dwight Yoakam

Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

— William Shakespeare

He who praises me on all occasions is a fool who despises me or a knave who wishes to cheat me

— Chinese Proverb

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

— Benjamin Franklin

You've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it goin' on.

— Tyra Banks

I used to worry I'd make a fool of myself, but I don't care what anyone thinks of me anymore.

— Peggy Lipton

People who think they're making a fool of themselves on the dance floor usually do.

— Cyd Charisse

By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann