Fool Quotes
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A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.
Marilyn vos Savant
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A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.
Sophocles
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Every Christian who does not study, really study, the Bible every day is a fool.
R. A. Torrey
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He came from a rock band and even though he was not a lead singer, I knew he was musical just from that. I also knew that he was intelligent enough from talking to him, that he would not play this part unless he could handle it vocally. I knew he was not about to get up there and have to have his voice dubbed or come off croaking. So Johnny Depp casted Johnny Depp. I trusted him entirely. I knew that he was no fool and he would only do it if he felt he could handle it. I told him to listen to the score carefully and if you can handle it, fine by me, and I was right.
Stephen Sondheim
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There may be many things wrong with the United States but only a blind fool who hasn't been paying attention for the last twenty years would hold up Europe as the alternative.
Mark Steyn
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The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat.
Confucius
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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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If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.
William H. Gass
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Anyone who ghettoizes any form of media is a fool.
Bryan Lourd
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You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.
George S. Kaufman
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I am for the most part so convinced that everything is lacking in basis, consequence, justification, that if someone dared to contradict me, even the man I most admire, he would seem to me a charlatan or a fool.
Emil Cioran
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I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
William Shakespeare
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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
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I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.
Marilyn Monroe
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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.
Gemma Ward
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I am a romantic fool, no doubt about that.
Alex Turner
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We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.
Ernest Hemingway
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Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
William Congreve
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Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.
William Congreve
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Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.
Ally Carter
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Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.
Theophrastus
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Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.
Terence McKenna
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If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.
William Congreve