The Fool Quotes

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.

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.

The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap.

I truly believed that tonight would never happen, that I would never sing these songs to you again. But then I'm a fool, which you've probably worked out by now.

I'm a realist. And realists don't fool themselves.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.

You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself

It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.

A man who says he feels no fear is either a fool or a liar.

The cross-eyed fool sees one lamp as two; The vision and the viewer are one

You can't fool all of the people all of the time. But it isn't necessary.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.

A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.

Only the fools are certain and assured.

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not.

Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of my own.

Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?

Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn it very quickly, you can fool somebody into thinking you're a great magician.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.

One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool

I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.

Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.

It's acceptable for men to act the fool. When women try, they're considered aggressive and opinionated.

People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.

It's a long climb up Fools' Hill.

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.

Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

Those who have wisdom have all: Fools with all have nothing.

Chance is the fool's name for Fate

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

Most liars can fool most people most of the time.

Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.

Busy opinion is an idle fool.

OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer . . .

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

That's the spirit, one part brave, three parts fool.

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

To be a fool at the right time is also an art.

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.