The Fool Quotes
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
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.
Why not make an end of it all?... My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings.... What is death?... A very small matter,when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
There is always Joker to see through the delusion. Generation succeeds generation, but there is a fool walking the earth who is never ravaged by time.
Being a comedian is like being a con man. You have to make 'em like you before you can fool 'em.
The Truth is in the prolouge. Death to the romantic fool., the expert in solitary confinement.
Franchot Tone is nuttier than a fruitcake, so don't let the genteel frosting fool you.
I've got cheekier with age. You can get away with murder when you're 71 years old. People just think I'm a silly old fool.
Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.
Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes- and most fools do- but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one's mistakes.
One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.
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.
A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
It is an easy thing to call names; any fool is equal to that ... and the weapon of vituperation is generally used by those who lack brains for argument or are upon the wrong side.
Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.
Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing.
Every time I read the paper those old feelings come on.We are waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool says to push on.
Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny.
The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.
The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.
This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
I've learned to feel good when I feel good. it's better to be driven around in a red porsche than to own one. the luck of the fool is inviolate.
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it.
