Fool Quotes
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I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won't have to fool around with it any longer.
William H. Gass -
I'm expecting the best John Thompson. I'd be a fool to expect anything less.
Liam Smith
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
Cesare Pavese -
The why is plain as way to parish church: He that a fool doth very wisely hit Doth very foolishly, although he smart, Not to seem senseless of the bob; if not, The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool.
William Shakespeare -
Already known as one of America’s best and wittiest poets, William Trowbridge has, in Ship of Fool, found the perfect vessel to convey his vision: comic, tender, wry, compassionate, full of insight and rueful understanding of what it means to carry on, cream pies in the face, pants falling down as the Green Weenie rampages through our foolish, beautiful lives.
Charles Harper Webb -
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
William Shakespeare -
An old fool is the worst of all fools.
Alice von Hildebrand -
If you want to live a long time, don't fool with nothing old but money, nothing big but a bank roll, nothing black but a Cadillac, nothing over twenty-two years, nothing that weighs over 130. If you do, you're in trouble. 'Cause when you're getting old and your cells gettin' low, you'll need a Delco battery to boost ya.
Satchel Paige
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Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others.
William Shakespeare -
A gun in your hand makes a fool out of you. A gun in your hand makes a target out of me.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.
Lewis B. Smedes -
Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
William Arthur Ward -
It probably is harder to fool people when they know they're going to be fooled.
Ricky Jay -
Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
Cato the Younger
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How every fool can play upon the word!
William Shakespeare -
On Bill Clinton: "If left to my own devices, I'd spend all my time pointing out that he's weaker than bus-station chili. But the man is so constantly subjected to such hideous and unfair abuse that I wind up standing up for him on the general principle that some fairness should be applied. Besides, no one but a fool or a Republican ever took him for a liberal.
Molly Ivins -
If you can talk the talk but cant walk the walk youll look like a fool. That's the risk but with great risk comes great reward.
Chael Sonnen -
If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.
William H. Gass -
The way you make something happen is to do something that a fool could screw up.
Seth Godin -
The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.”
George Walter
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A serious ape whom none take seriously,Obliged in this fool's world to earn his nutsBy hard buffoonery.
George Eliot -
To all the Callahan's Places there ever were or ever will be, whatever they may be called — and to all the merry maniacs and happy fools who are fortunate enough to stumble into one: may none of them arrive too late!
Spider Robinson -
Her mother was my wife," the Count roared, loudest of all. "You pathetic excuse for am money-grubbing fool, you disgrace to the face of the world." And with a shriek of disgust he turned and was gone. Guilietta was beside Inigo then, so excited. "Daddy likes you," she said.
William Goldman -
It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.
William Hazlitt