Fool Quotes
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Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others.
William Shakespeare
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My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.
Ernest Hemingway
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People love Batman, and I would be stupid, I would be a fool if I didn't love Batman.
Adam West
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Look at us all - we are all of us lost and in all of our different ways of pretending, we all fool ourselves into the very same hell. Look at the cross - we are all of us loved and one God meets us all at the point of our common need and brings to all of us - all who will let Him - salvation.
Rich Mullins
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A fool and his money are soon married.
Carolyn Wells
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Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.
Thomas Carlyle
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
Moliere
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
Seneca the Younger
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What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach, Which pries not to th' interior, but like the martlet Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road of casualty.
William Shakespeare
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The fool inherits, but the wise must get.
William Cartwright
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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.
Bob Jones, Sr.
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I'm expecting the best John Thompson. I'd be a fool to expect anything less.
Liam Smith
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You can't depend on the kind of folks people think they are - you've got to go by what they do. And I wouldn't give much for a man that some folks hadn't thought was a fool, in his time.
Stephen Vincent Benet
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It was revealed to me many years ago with conclusive certainty that I was a fool and that I had always been a fool. Since then I have been as happy as any man has a right to be.
Alastair Sim
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The stock market is never obvious. It is designed to fool most of the people, most of the time.
Jesse Livermore
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People are idiots. Including me. Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with the low SAT scores. The only difference is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.
Scott Adams
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Anyone who ghettoizes any form of media is a fool.
Bryan Lourd
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This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands.
William Butler Yeats
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They will fool you every time.
Alfred Sturtevant
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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
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The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.
William Bolitho
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I think what all actors share is that, somewhere down in your solar plexus, there's this fear that you're not going to be able to come up with the goods, that this is the one movie where you're going to look like a fool, and they should have cast someone else. And you feel ugly, and you've got three chins, and you've gained too much weight, and you're losing your hair, and there are so many better actors who could do this. But if you've got chops, what you realize is that everybody feels that way, so just show up and do the job.
William H. Macy
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Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams
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A fool cannot hold his tongue.
Plutarch