Fool Quotes

But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Being flirty is a way of letting a guy know you're interested without making a fool out of yourself.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

The party lines don't change, that's what makes them a party and you'd be a fool to think that just because there's a black man in there it's not gonna change the real foundation of the system. Especially when you look at his largest contributor to his campaign, AIG, one of the culprits in the economic meltdown itself.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.

With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

I am a wife-made man.

When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.

Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.

Only a genius can play a fool.