Fool Quotes
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You can't fool children.
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One thing should be put firmly. Where people have commented on that novel [The Paper Men], they generally criticize the poor academic, Rick L. Tucker, who is savaged by the author, Wilfred Barclay. I don't think people have noticed that I have been far ruder about Barclay than I have been about Tucker. Tucker is a fool, but Barclay is a swine. The author really gets his come-uppance.
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Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
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Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions.
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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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The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.
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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.
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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.
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One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.
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I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.
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A fool and his words are soon parted.
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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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If you don't have reservations, you're a fool. You can't go blind into something.
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Earth bears no balsams for mistakes; Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool That did his will: but thou, O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool.
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Thus may poor fools Belive false teachers.
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I think time and time again, in reality, psychological notions and economic notions interplay, and the man who doesn't understand both is a damned fool.
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They will fool you every time.
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Give fools the first and women the last word.
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No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get married.
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A man is a fool who leans on the arm of flesh when he can be supported by the arm of Omnipotence.
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DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it. DON PEDRO You have put him down, lady, you have put him down. BEATRICE So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools.
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The word "necessary" is miserably applied. It disordereth families, and overturneth government, by being so abused. Remember that children and fools want everything because they want judgment to distinguish; and therefore there is no stronger evidence of a crazy understanding than the making too large a catalogue of things necessary.
