The Fool Quotes

Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.

To marry a fool is to be no fool.

Old fools are greater fools than young ones.

History, history! We fools, what do we know or care.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and the other half can’t find it.

Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.

One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.

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

Fools carry their daggers in their open mouths.

Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!"

Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder. Another is Deity. The choice to be a fool is yours.

And eat lots of mints, it fools the cops.

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

Silence is the best answer to a fool.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool

Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.

Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.

I'll be a fool or a wiseman, my darling, you hold the key. Anyway you want me, that's how I will be.

Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

For the turning away of the simple, shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

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

Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs us of our skills, our judgment, and blinds us to creative solutions.

what the situation will be like in the world before the Lord returns, namely, Christ will be despised, and the preachers of the Gospel will be regarded as fools.

Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.

Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.

The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing.

When you're certain you cannot be fooled, you become easy to fool.

My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.

Everybody's strange everywhere. Most of the trick of being a social animal is pretending you're not. But who do you fool? Nobody worth talking to.

Consider that we shouldn't call our brother a fool, since we don't know ourselves what we are.

People underestimate me, maybe because of my look, maybe because of my speech, and I love that. I love to give the impression that I'm an easy victim. I ain't nobody's fool, believe that.

Too many men are afraid of being fools.

Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?

Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

A fool will lose tomorrow reaching back for yesterday

I can go into a lab and fool the rear ends off any group of scientists.