Fool Quotes
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Long ago, he had made that choice between work and life that can seldom be avoided at the highest levels of human endeavor … Any fool could shuffle genes, and most did. But whether or not history gave him credit, few men could have achieved what he had done - and was about to do.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.
Agatha Christie
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Don't hate me 'cause I'm booed a fool!
Brian Celio
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Do they think that I am such a damned fool as to think myself fit for President of the United States? No, sir; I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way, but I am not fit to be President.
Andrew Jackson
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Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again.
James Stephens
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Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.
Jessamyn West
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It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P.S.: I never inherited any money.
Elbert Hubbard
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A fool and his money are soon parted. It takes creative tax laws for the rest.
Bob Thaves
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Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
Frank Wedekind
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God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
Victor Hugo
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Be a clown, be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool, play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh.
Cole Porter
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Circus, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
Ambrose Bierce
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Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.
Cleopatra
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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith
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Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.
Nile Rodgers Chic
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The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.
Jerome Lawrence
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A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
Elizabeth I
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I well believe, thou wouldst be great as he;For every man's a fool to that degree:All wish the dire prerogative to kill;Ev'n they would have the power who want the will.
John Dryden
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It's fun to explore behavior that you can't explore in your own life, so you fool around with it in acting.
James Spader
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And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' " - 'Joy of Life
Emile Zola
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This is love that surrounds, only a fool without wisdom can see. Blind as I am in your eyes, my lady of dreams.
John Roy Anderson Yes
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For, as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Alexander Pope
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This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.
William Shakespeare
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I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, I love to fool you a third time. And just when you think it's all over, I have what I call that Carrie hand-out-of-the-grave moment. Just when you think it's all over, I'm going to hit you with just one more. I can't help myself.
Harlan Coben