Fool Quotes

• 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
  • Fool

• If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

  

  Theophrastus
  • Acting
  • Fool
  • Ignorant

• No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Reason
  • Feels
  • Acting

• Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.

  

  Charles Fletcher Lummis
  • Writing
  • Book
  • House

• It is a popular idea that a man is a hero just because he was killed in action. Rather, I think, a man is frequently a fool when he gets killed.

  

  George S. Patton
  • Action
  • Hero
  • Killed

• The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Men
  • Fool
  • Truth Is

• To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must write dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Moments

• We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Book
  • Needs
  • Might

• 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.

  

  Nicolas Massu
  • Strong
  • Fool
  • Victory

• Well then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Way
  • Military
  • Feels

• A fool and his money are soon married.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Money
  • Fool
  • Married

• Silence is the best answer to a fool.

  

  Nnedi Okorafor
  • Silence
  • Fool
  • Answer

• 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

• 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.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Age
  • Envy

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

  

  George Pope Morris
  • Fool
  • Born
  • Laughing

• Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Men
  • Wise
  • Fit

• We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Heart
  • Fall
  • Taken

• 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.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Fool
  • Found
  • Mistress

• Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.

  

  Joey Adams
  • Fool
  • Kiss

• 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.

  

  Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Crazy

• It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

  

  Norman Douglas
  • Wise
  • Honest
  • Handle

• A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Men
  • Beauty
  • Successful

• 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
  • Nature
  • Fool
  • Mushroom

• So, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Justice
  • Wise
  • Literature

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