Fool Quotes

3350 Fool quotes by 1831 unique authors

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise. — George Eliot
A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past. — Elizabeth I
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. — Jim Elliot
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool. — Epicurus
The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as… — Desiderius Erasmus
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. — Euripides
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. — Richard P. Feynman
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it. — W.C. Fields
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. — Gustave Flaubert
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing. — Jean de La Fontaine
It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools. — E. M. Forster
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet. — Salma Hayek
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. — William Hazlitt
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for… — William Hazlitt
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having… — William Hazlitt
There are more fools in the world than there are people. — Heinrich Heine
I don't fool with a lot of things that I can't have fun with. There's not much reward in that. — Levon Helm
When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool. — Levon Helm
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. — Ernest Hemingway
Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers. — Christopher Hitchens
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got… — Whitney Houston
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. — James Huneker

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