Fool Quotes
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Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.
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If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.
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When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
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Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter; Oh no! the miserablest day we live There's many a better thing to do than die!
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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.
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A serious ape whom none take seriously,Obliged in this fool's world to earn his nutsBy hard buffoonery.
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I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.
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Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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There are times when it's easier to fool yourself than swallow some jagged piece of reality.
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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.
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Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts.
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Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.
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He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.
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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
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I don't want to fool anyone, we should win and it should be a strong victory. But we have to be very serious about it.
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
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We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.
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Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?
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The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.
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No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself.
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The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much less sons, land, or money.
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The fool is disturbed not when they tell him that his ideas are false, but when they suggest that they have gone out of style.
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A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
