Top 100 Fool Foolish Quotes
#2. People who smoke would have probably been regarded as fools or insane, if only a percentage of people who smoke smoked.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#3. A wise person can never be truly poor;
a foolish person can never be truly rich.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#4. When enemies, the intellect and the heart only see one another as the hater and the fool.
Criss Jami
#5. To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.
Euripides
#6. A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We rarely ask ourselves how we got here, (which doesn't help with the question of how we get out of here), all of which rarely keeps us from finding ourselves in the next yard asking the same questions.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#7. A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#8. If as an adult I have scolded and then silenced the child within me, I contend that I am neither an adult nor a child. Rather, I am just plain ignorant.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#9. I'd experienced joy, but not nearly enough, could there be enough? The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#10. The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.
Carl Maria Von Weber
#12. The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.
Elbert Hubbard
#13. A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.
[Fr., Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.]
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
#14. There are consequences to ignoring consequences that are a consequence of my blatant unwillingness to learn from my consequences.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#15. My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade of silence is clean like night. The code is absolute. Silence is eternal and patient. Silence never makes a fool of itself like I have so many times.
Henry Rollins
#16. Most of my failures can be ascribed to the fact that I chose that which was 'easy' over that which was 'right'. And while it's 'right' to admit this to myself, it isn't 'easy.' So, which choice am I going to make this time?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#17. Aye, say thou fool? Then fool, good Sir, am I.
But when thou sayest fool remember well
That fools do walk in foolish company.
So if I am a fool, perhaps 'tis true
That other fools around me may be found.
Ian Doescher
#18. Maybe I am just an old fool with foolish thoughts, but those foolish thoughts allow this old fool to sleep quite comfortably at night.
S.A. Tawks
#19. Count your blessings and be grateful not a great fool.
Habeeb Akande
#20. Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#21. Nothing wrong with looking like a fool if what you are doing is far from foolish.
Paulo Coelho
#22. Everything that I hold will eventually be gone. Subsequently, the quality of my life will depend on whether I choose to appreciate those things 'now' or wait until 'then.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#25. Journeys end in lovers meeting; I have spent an all but sleepless night, I have told lies and made a fool of myself, and the very air tastes like wine. I have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but I have somehow earned this joy; I have been waiting for it for so long.
Shirley Jackson
#26. Only a fool would be fighting them, my queen, and though I am a fool, I'm not that foolish. (Lutian)
Kinley MacGregor
#27. I'd be foolish if I didn't return her interest." He puffed out his chest. "And no one has ever called me a fool."
Rosika's jaw tightened. She rubbed her temples. "I'm giving it some serious consideration.
Jess Schira
#28. If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.
William Shatner
#29. All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise.
Vincent Bugliosi
#30. There is justice nowhere for a fool. A fool they whip even in the Holy Temple.
Anzia Yezierska
#31. But you don't even like being a Fool!" "I hate it. But that's got nothing to do with it. If I've got to be a Fool, I'll do it properly." "That's really stupid," said Magrat. "Foolish, I'd prefer." The
Terry Pratchett
#32. There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.
John Brunner
#34. The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.
Criss Jami
#36. Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.
David Gemmell
#37. I know you think me foolish, but then, I am the Fool. You know then I must be Foolish.
Robin Hobb
#38. Fools die happy. The happy die young. The young die foolish.
Alex Gaskarth
#40. The problem is you make the tricks look good. You are a brilliant acrobat, and a witty comedian. You are skillful. People want a fool to be foolish
trip on banana peels and grin and spout nonsense. These men want fools to make them feel better about themselves, not to remind them what they lack.
Kelli Swofford Nielsen
#41. Foolish people inflict pain upon them self which is worse than what an enemy can bring upon.
Thiruvalluvar
#42. All men are frauds. Some, the wise, fool only others. Others, the foolish, fool only themselves. And a rare few fool both others and themselves - they are the rulers of Men
R. Scott Bakker
#43. I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
Moliere
#44. I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.
Barry Goldwater
#45. Foolish minds will entertain you, but confuse minds will irritate you.
Amit Kalantri
#46. A man must consent to look to a foolish, innocent, adolescent part of himself for his cure. The inner fool is the only one who can touch his Fisher King wound.
Robert A. Johnson
#47. The wise teach, the righteous learn from them; the foolish disregard any knowledge handed to them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#48. I was foolish because I believed in you. You are a fool because you believe in yourself!
J. California Cooper
#49. The pessimist may call the optimist a fool; but who is more foolish, the happy individual who expects more happiness or the one who fills his life with bitterness and has only more despair to look forward to?
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#50. I love foolish people because I am not enough of a fool to not love them.
Debasish Mridha
#51. Due north' on my compass is largely 'due' to the fact that in 'due' time I have been 'unduly' lax in recalibrating my compass. And I'm apparently ignorant enough to wonder why I'm lost.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#52. No one can identify the uninformed until they voice their ignorance about a topic. Silence is a fool's best friend. Sadly, he is often too foolish to realize it.
Carlos Wallace
#53. Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Euripides
#54. Ivy returned his direct gaze with a particularly innocent smile. "The great advantage," she said, "of being thought silly, is that people forget and begin to think one might also be foolish. I may, Professor Lyall, be a trifle enthusiastic in my manner and dress, but I am no fool.
Gail Carriger
#55. Where in the Bible are we told in one verse not to do a thing and in the next to do it?
'Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.' Prov. xxvi. 4.
'Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.' Prov. xxvi. 5.
Samuel Grant Oliphant
#56. Many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.
Mark Twain
#57. How foolish it is for me to be completely honest with my wife about my shortcomings, but try to fool God!
Francis Chan
#58. Now here is a riddle," Melisandre said. "A clever fool and a foolish wise man.
George R R Martin
#59. The wise are in the light,
moving forward;
the foolish are in the dark,
moving backwards.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#60. Things that are truly great need nothing from me, and to somehow think that they do speaks to my utter lack of greatness.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#61. A sage is a former fool who has become tired of himself.
A foolish sage is one who forgets this.
Remember, or come full circle.
Vera Nazarian
#62. You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.
Tom Wilkinson
#63. The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow them.
Diane Johnson
#64. This letter has gotten foolish, and I think you know how I detest looking like a fool. But still I do. For you.
Kiera Cass
#65. In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.
Chinua Achebe
#67. A fool is a thorn in his own flesh,
and day after day his wounds worsen.
The more he serves folly,
the more foolish he becomes.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#68. The foolish experience much,
but learn little.
The wise experience little,
but learn much.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#69. A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured.
Marcel Proust
#70. It's true there are moments - foolish moments, ecstasy on a tree stump - when I'm all but gone, scattered I like to think like seed, for I'm the sort now in the fool's position of having love left over which I'd like to lose; what good is it now to me, candy ungiven after Halloween?
William H Gass
#71. If you don't want to be foolish, don't try to fool anyone.
Debasish Mridha
#72. Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
John Ray
#73. The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
Walter Lippmann
#74. If people are always comfortable with you, you're probably not telling them the whole truth.
Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
#75. Congratulations, he said. "That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen." His expression was a mix of awe and disbelief. "Ever.
Patrick Rothfuss
#76. Society's goal is to make us less foolish. From the cradle to grave the pressure is on: "Be normal!" Our inner fool may be shackled and caged by a world made to suppress it, but Jesus came to free the fool.
Mark Batterson
#77. A man is seated on top of a tree in the midst of a burning forest. He sees all living beings perish. But he doesn't realize that the same fate is soon to overtake him also. That man is fool.
Mahavira
#78. The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among us. He laughed and said, "This is too hard a thing to do, and it will take too long. Were it not better to count only the wise?"
Khalil Gibran
#79. When wisdom gives way to whimsy and ethics fall to excitement, it is highly likely that the ground beneath me will 'give way' and it is I who will 'fall.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#80. And, beginning to grind his teeth again, Pyotr Petrovich admitted that he'd been a fool
but only to himself, of course.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#81. A dog to vomit does turn,
A fool to folly but return,
The wise err and learn,
Gaining from each burn.
Munindra Misra
#82. You are foolish, but without fools there would be no wisdom
John Colton
#83. The wise see in the dark;
the foolish are blind, even in light.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#84. It is the fool who declares 'I am ascending the summit,' while he's toddling around in the ditch.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#85. If I don't fool you, I'm not doing my job as a magician.
If I make you feel foolish, I'm not doing my job as a human being.
Jerry Andrus
#86. There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
#87. Pretend you are foolish to the foolish, and be yourself when you are alone or with others like you, because if you take the foolish seriously as your friend, you might be a fool yourself.
A Gentlemen
#88. We should never hesitate to listen to a fool about life because life is pretty foolish as far as I can tell.
P. J. O'Rourke
#89. A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Bruce Lee
#91. If you debate the wise,
no matter how poor,
they will hearken to wisdom.
If you debate the foolish,
no matter how rich,
they will mock wisdom.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#93. Luthicer hummed. "You're either brave or very foolish."
"What's the difference?" (Eric)
Shannon A. Thompson
#94. In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.
Criss Jami
#95. Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?
Alec Guinness
#96. Any man, you'll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool.
Julia Quinn
#97. We want to 'write in' our plan and 'write out' the consequence. When we do that, we're headed 'right back' to what we foolishly thought we could 'write out.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#98. You see I'm such a fool that I'm never afraid of appearing foolish.
Dorothy Day
#99. A fool more foolish than most had once jested that even Lord Tywin's shit was flecked with gold. Some said the man was still alive, deep in the bowels of Casterly Rock.
George R R Martin
#100. Publicity is just a foolish act done by wise people confidently, to fool the world.
Pratik Akkawar
