Quotes on Fool

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

Author: Lord Acton

Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.

Author: Harry Anderson

I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.

Author: Julie Andrews

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Author: Minna Antrim

I go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable.

Author: Armand Assante

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

Author: Franz Beckenbauer

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Author: Al Bernstein

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

Author: Josh Billings

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

Author: William Blake

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

Author: Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Author: Gerald Brenan

You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.

Author: Sitting Bull

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.

Author: David Burns

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

Author: Samuel Butler

But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.

Author: Donald Cargill

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

Author: Andrew Carnegie

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.

Author: Dale Carnegie

The fool inherits, but the wise must get.

Author: William Cartwright

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

Author: Ilka Chase

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

Author: John Collins

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Author: Charles Colton

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Author: Charles Colton

I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

Author: Alan Coren

My ears won't fool me. Even when I do a session on digital, we still warm it up somewhere in the process, in mastering or mixing, running the signal through some tubes somewhere.

Author: Steve Cropper

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

Author: Roald Dahl

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Author: Benjamin Disraeli

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Author: John Donne

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

Author: William Drummond

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.

Author: William Drummond

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

Author: John Dryden

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Author: John Dryden

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.

Author: Elizabeth Elizabeth I

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Author: Jim Elliot

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Author: Epicurus

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Author: Euripides

One fool at least in every married couple.

Author: Henry Fielding

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

Author: Anatole France

The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.

Author: Marie France

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Author: Thomas Fuller

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

Author: Thomas Fuller

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

Author: Neil Gaiman

I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.

Author: David Gerrold

It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all.

Author: Jeff Goldblum

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Author: Baltasar Gracian

Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?

Author: Alec Guinness

No one but a fool is always right.

Author: David Hare

But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the cast I would be working with - I would have been a fool to turn it down just because the role for me was another gay role.

Author: Sean Hayes

When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.

Author: Levon Helm

I don't fool with a lot of things that I can't have fun with. There's not much reward in that.

Author: Levon Helm

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Author: Hesiod

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

Author: Kin Hubbard

My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.

Author: Brion James

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

Author: Anna Jameson

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

Author: Billy Joel

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Author: Ben Jonson

He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Author: Ben Jonson

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Author: Carl Jung

When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.

Author: Felicity Kendal

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

Author: Rudyard Kipling

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

Author: Jerome Lawrence

Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.

Author: Kenneth Lay

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

Author: Bruce Lee

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Author: Bruce Lee

Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is a right of which the Soviet Union in this case has taken full advantage.

Author: Henry Lodge, Jr.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Author: Niccolo Machiavelli

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

Author: W. Maugham

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Author: Bryant McGill

You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

Author: Donella Meadows

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.

Author: Lord Melbourne

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

Author: H. Mencken

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

Author: H. Mencken

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

Author: Wilson Mizner

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

Author: Moliere

To marry a fool is to be no fool.

Author: Moliere

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

Author: Charles Montesquieu

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

Author: William Penn

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Author: Laurence Peter

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

Author: J. Priestley

Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.

Author: Michael Reed

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

Author: Anne Rice

I was always a show-off - as a kid I was never afraid to make a fool of myself, and I guess that's still true.

Author: Ann Robinson

I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!

Author: Norman Rockwell

You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.

Author: Nile Rodgers

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Author: Joseph Roux

I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.

Author: Richard Russo

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

Author: George Santayana

Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.

Author: Adam Savage

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Author: Franz Schubert

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

Author: Charles Secondat

The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.

Author: Thomas Shadwell

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Author: William Shakespeare

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Author: William Shakespeare

A fool and his words are soon parted.

Author: William Shenstone

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

Author: Robert Sherwood

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

Author: Joey Skaggs

The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.

Author: Richard Steele

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

Author: Jonathan Swift

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Author: Publilius Syrus

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

Author: Charles Talleyrand

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

Author: Sharon Tate

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

Author: Jeremy Taylor

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Author: Randall Terry

I wasn't absolutely too sure where the Falklands was, and I didn't want to make a bloody fool of myself.

Author: Denis Thatcher

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Author: Hunter Thompson

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Author: Henry Thoreau

I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.

Author: Bill Veeck

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

Author: Voltaire

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

Author: Mae West

I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.

Author: Katherine Whitehorn

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

Author: Edward Young