Fool Quotes
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.
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As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters.
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If you don't have reservations, you're a fool. You can't go blind into something.
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More frightening to me than any policy or politician is the ease with which the public is played for fools with words. The latest example is the 'Employee Freedom of Choice Act,' a bill that will do away with secret ballot elections among workers voting on whether to be represented by a union. It is an open invitation to intimidation - which is to say, loss of freedom of choice.
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Anyone who dismisses out of hand evidence that U.S. intelligence agencies still do some of the things that they now brag about having done not too long ago is not a skeptic, but a fool.
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What I hate most in life are people who are not really the peach of the day but who want to be young and sexy. You can fool nobody. There is a moment when you have to accept that somebody else is younger and fresher and hotter. Life is not a beauty contest.
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Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
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A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.
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The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat.
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A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.
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Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.
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The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.
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The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach.
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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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Takes a man or a woman to say I'm sorry, and it takes a fool to walk away.
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If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.
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A gun in your hand makes a fool out of you. A gun in your hand makes a target out of me.
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Silence is the best answer to a fool.
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Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools.
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It seems like I have more in common - or hit it off better - with rappers than fools that are in rock music. It was always natural for me.
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What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass.
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I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.
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Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.
