The Fool Quotes

He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.

You know the expression 'God protects fools and drunks'? I qualify for both.

St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish.

On adultery: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?

The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants

When a father is quick to lose his tempre, his sons are fools.

This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands.

There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.

I alone have the mind of a fool, and am all muddled and vague. The people are so smart and bright. While I am just dull and confused.

Sincerity seems to be a problem today. I'd rather be true and hated than be false and fool people.

"I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?"

The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.

No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned

A fool is a person who knows the difference between right and wrong, and chooses to do wrong.

The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.

Angels rush in when fools are almost dead.

No one but a fool is always right.

If I don't fool you, I'm not doing my job as a magician. If I make you feel foolish, I'm not doing my job as a human being.

If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.

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

It is success that colours all in life, Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest.

... there’s also nothing noble about being fearless. How much do you wanna bet the last man standing in a battle is usually the biggest fool of all?” - Paul Hudson

Donald Trump is a fool, but he is not free to be a dangerous fool in Britian.

He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.

A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.

Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.

The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.

I'm afraid of everything. Fear of being alone, fear of being hurt, fear of being made a fool of, fear of failure... Still, I think all my fears bleed from one big one.

To appreciate nonsense you must first acquire wisdom, then compromise the two; only then will the fool understand you, and believe himself to be wise.

The fashionable idiocy that haters must have justifications is one of those ideas that George Orwell said only an intellectual could believe -- because no one else could be such a fool.

Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.

Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.

The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.

There's one fool at least in every married couple.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.

Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.

I asked him "Who said you could fool around with my wife" he said everybody.

The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.

I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.