Fool Quotes

• Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Man
  • Fool
  • Wisest Man

• 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
  • Men
  • Eye
  • Wall

• Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.

  

  William Congreve
  • Men
  • Wife
  • Marriage

• He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the easy tranquil things of life. He had made mistakes, but he could overlook these. He had been a fool, but that could be forgiven. The time wasted--must be relinquished. What else could one do about it? Things were too complex, but they might be reduced to simplicity again. Recovery was possible.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Mistake
  • Easy
  • Simplicity

• Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • People
  • World
  • Culture

• Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Fool
  • Recognition

• The first thing you have to get used to in any kind of acting is the ability to make a fool of yourself. If you haven't learnt how to make a fool of yourself, you shouldn't be on the boards. That's absolutely what it's all about.

  

  John Hurt
  • Fool

• 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.

  

  Richard Scott Bakker
  • Men
  • Ignorance
  • Knowing

• A laughing fool ... seems born for nothing but to show his teeth.

  

  George Pope Morris
  • Fool
  • Born
  • Laughing

• The blind quest for cash is a fool's errand.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Fool
  • Blind
  • Errand

• Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.

  

  William Congreve
  • Men
  • Long
  • Funny

• Why ... do the myths of America the Hateful take such powerful hold? Because anti-Americanism provides a useful emotional function which goes beyond logic and reaches deep into the darker recesses of the European soul. In centuries past those on the Left who wished to personalise their hatred of capitalism, who sought to make it emotionally resonant by fastening an envious political passion on to a blameless scapegoat people, embraced anti-Semitism. It was the socialism of fools. Which is what anti-Americanism is now.

  

  Michael Gove
  • People
  • Soul
  • Political

• If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.

  

  William Congreve
  • Wise
  • Blessed
  • Complacency

• We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Said
  • Lucky
  • Miscellaneous

• You were fool enough to think that one hundred and fifty million years either way made an ounce of difference to the muddle of thoughts in a man’s cerebral vortex.

  

  Brian Aldiss
  • Thoughts
  • Fool

• From now on I'm thinking only of me." Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: "But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way." "Then," said Yossarian, "I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Way
  • Feels
  • Said

• 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
  • Band
  • Enough
  • Intelligent

• Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.

  

  Janice Dickinson
  • Fool
  • Liar

• You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Looks
  • Able
  • Paper

• A fool cannot hold his tongue.

  

  Plutarch
  • Fool
  • Tongue
  • Hold

• A wise man sees failure as progress. A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic, And loses his soul in the process.

  

  Canibus
  • Soul
  • Wise
  • Fool

• 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
  • Life
  • Important
  • Mistake

• Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Fire
  • Milk
  • Follows

• 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
  • Different
  • Common
  • Hell

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