Fool Quotes · Page 95

No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself.

— James Cook

It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar

— Christopher Paolini

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

— Sophocles

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

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

— Octavia Butler

I feel there is a strong bond between artists and children and all other sacred fools.

— Gottfried Helnwein

Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree

— Joyce Kilmer

Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damage. It…

— Patrick Kavanagh

You hurt me more then I deserve, how can you be so cruel? I love you more then you deserve, why am…

— SangFroid Stalker

“I thought I was a fool for no one; But ooh baby I'm a fool for you; You're the queen of the…

— Matthew Bellamy

You fool, You have been dangling For such a long time! When will you seize the opportunity Or feel the necessity To…

— Sri Chinmoy

I do not play games, but always just say what's on my mind. Ostentatious modesty - for fools. If a man afraid…

— Mila Kunis

The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“He who is ready to die for his country is a fool. For he didn’t choose where he was born; and where…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“She can be pious, she can be learned, she can be witty and wise and beautiful, but if she is married to…

— Philippa Gregory

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people…

— Winston Churchill

I happen to be a kind of monkey. I have a monkeylike curiosity that makes me want to feel, smell, and taste…

— Willis R. Whitney

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest…

— Carl Jung

Atlantis: Fabled. Mystical. Golden. Mysterious. Glorious and magical. There are those who claim that it never was. But then there are also…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Fools, art is a heavy task, more heavy than gold crowns; it's far more difficult to match firm words than armies, they're…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and…

— Honore de Balzac

“He shook his head pityingly. “This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll…

— Robin Hobb

People are fooled by the colour of my skin. I grew up on the north side of Fredericton in a Celtic culture…

— Measha Brueggergosman

“To Hades with you, fool, for God hath tired of you.”

— Sam Cheever

If you don’t want your life to be 'messed up', don’t fool around with those who have messed up theirs.

— Napoleon Hill

“She preferred keeping her mouth shut and appearing a fool to opening it and removing the doubt.”

— Joan Smith

“More fool he to let himself become an addict to anything, even to living.”

— Frank Herbert

There are no fools so troublesome as those of the mind

— Anonymous

“Just because you're an angel doesn't mean you have to be a fool.”

— Terry Pratchett

Wiseguy' was very satisfying to do, but it was also very draining.

— Ken Wahl

If you tell quotation to a fool, it has to be explained to him.

— Vikrant Parsai

The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— William Blake

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

— J. MIkayla Robinson

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Robin Hobb

“Any fool who can pucker is apt to whistle past the graveyard.”

— Stephen King