The Fool Quotes
It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.
I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don't apologise, that's my life
'I've got children', 'I've got wealth.' This is the way a fool brings suffering on himself. He does not even own himself, so how can he have children or wealth?
Violence has never prospered, you can't remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!
The wise learn from the mistakes of others, it's the fool that wants to make their own mistakes.
The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.
Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.
Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
Quoting E. B. White is the easiest way I know of to fool people into thinking that I am perceptive, witty, and wise.
Take advantage of this human boat; Free yourself from sorrow's mighty stream! This vessel will be later hard to find. The time that you have now, you fool, is not for sleep!
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.
He who takes offense when offense was not intended is a fool, yet he who takes offense when offense is intended is an even greater fool for he has succumbed to the will of his adversary.
Timing the market is a fools game, whereas time in the market is your greatest natural advantage.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.
The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.
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.
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
