Fool Quotes · Page 76

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

The fool doesn't think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

— Babloo

“Luthicer hummed. "You're either brave or very foolish." "What's the difference?" (Eric)”

— Shannon A. Thompson

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

— Andrew Carnegie

It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool.

— L. Frank Baum

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

— Aesop

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

— Josh Billings

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

— Alan Perlis

If I feel like I can't play ball anymore, I'll stop that day. I'm not a fool. I respect the game too…

— Frank Gore

--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others

— Philip Roth

A grandmother is a person with too much wisdom to let that stop her from making a fool of herself over her…

— Phil Moss

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that…

— Criss Jami

“Everytime I stare at your pictures I'm like "what kind of fool would ever miss this " But baby My love for…

— Bandile M Matsenjwa

I am strong because I know my weaknesses. I am wise because I've been foolish. I give in because I've tasted loneliness…

— Nishan Panwar

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.

— Wilkie Collins

Today, John Kerry announced a fool-proof plan to wipe out the $500B deficit. John Kerry has a plan, he's going to put…

— Craig Kilborn

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's…

— Rudyard Kipling

It's an old Elizabethan idea. The fool is the only one who is allowed to make fun of the king because he…

— Harry Anderson

“The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization…

— Robin Hobb

What an infernal set of fools those schoolmarms must be! Well, if in order to please men they wish to live on…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

'When you have a lemon, make a lemonade.' That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite.…

— Dale Carnegie

For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the…

— Homer

Debasement was limited at first to one’s own territory. It was then found that one could do better by taking bad coins…

— Charles P. Kindleberger

And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I think that we really fool ourselves about our ability to be safe and secure nowadays.

— Anna Quindlen

I'm not scared to look like a complete fool in front of people. It's just not one of my insecurities.

— Amy Smart

Dont allow the opinion of the fool to alter who you are.

— Collins Adoma Asante

“My favorite Proverb: If you argue with a fool, how will they know who the fool is?”

— C. Fern Cook

Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.

— Lester B. Pearson

ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.

— Ambrose Bierce

I don't care about making a fool of myself on stage anymore. I don't care what people think.

— Vicki Lawrence

You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?

— Nathanael Emmons

I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.

— Sharon Tate

“You're such a sucker for sweet talk that you'd lie with every scumbag who comes your way.”

— Ahmed Mostafa

There is an increasing market for mental hospital stuff. I am a fool if I don't relive it, recreate it.

— Sylvia Plath

“Just Do What you feel, and Don't you fool yourself”

— Ziggy Marley

Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel.

— Anonymous

“He lied, but he fooled no one, and everyone has a right to try to fool themselves sometimes.”

— Shawn Mihalik

You can fool some people sometimes, but you cant fool all the people all the time.

— Bob Marley

“Applause has made a fool of more men than criticism.”

— Bob Edwards