Fool Quote by Goethe

And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The poor fool hadn't realized that if all mankind shares a folly or an illusion, and likes to share it even knowing what it…

— John Dickson Carr

“But no, Potticary, poor fool, brushed his boots for love of it. He probably had a slave mentality; but had never read enough for…

— Josephine Tey

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a…

— Marquis de Sade

One came to the war all over gold, like a girl. Poor fool! it did not save him from cruel death.

— The Iliad

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my…

— Anonymous

Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The Yorubas have a saying, here, my translation in English--a poor fool is a bigger fool rich. In other words, money only allows and…

— Dew Platt

“Lord, why can't the women let you alone? Just because once or twice, seven hundred million years ago, you were a poor fool, why…

— Sinclair Lewis

“That's man's way. To prove something. Day in, day out he must prove he is a man. Poor Fool.”

— Ernest J. Gaines

“He won the war on the battlefield and lost it in a bedchamber, poor fool.”

— George R.R. Martin