Top 100 Fool Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Fool

#1. Only the man who thinks himself a fool is as wise as he thinks.

#2. I can be a stupid girl inside of a crazy woman at times over you. If I weren't, you should be worried! We all do stupid shit. I might as well be a fool for someone worth it.

Crystal Woods

#3. Life's a dog and then you die? No no. Life is a joyous dance through daffodils beneath cerulean blue skies and then, then what? I forget what happens next.
-A Fool's Progress

Edward Abbey

#4. I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!"

Lewis Mumford

#5. I may be a little fool,' retorted Miss Challoner, plucking up spirit, 'but at least I meant it for the best. While as for you, my lord, you meant nothing but wicked mischief right from the start.

Georgette Heyer

#6. He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.

Benjamin Franklin

#7. Don't let the bad leg fool you, son. If you hurt my princess, I will be the nightmare you never see coming.

C.J. Redwine

#8. Man must begin, know this, where Nature ends; Nature and man can never be fast friends. Fool, if thou canst not pass her, rest her slave!

Matthew Arnold

#9. The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too.

Samuel Butler

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

Elbert Hubbard

#11. And like a fool, I bought into it.

Suzanne Collins

#12. Work! Look at the secrets to success, look at your family, your community, your culture, take a look at what they have done to be successful and don't fool yourself. Don't think that you are going to get success on discount.

Eric Thomas

#13. Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage.

Robin Sloan

#14. New York City gritty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty.

Pharoahe Monch

#15. I was interviewing an elder, Chief Fool's Crow, who was the ceremonial chief. He was 103 years old. I was getting his information on the history of Lakota horses. He told me the story of Hidalgo and Frank Hopkins.

John Fusco

#16. Concentrate and think upon the problem in mind until a satisfactory conclusion is reached, and then finally go ahead. If you have made a mistake, all right. Never find fault with a man because he has made a mistake. It is only a fool that makes the same mistake the second time.

Charles M. Schwab

#17. The stubborn fool is walking now, and even challenged Robin to a sparring match this afternoon. I stopped them, of course, though Robin was only too happy to fight him, the idiot.

Julie Kagawa

#18. Everybody's strange everywhere. Most of the trick of being a social animal is pretending you're not. But who do you fool? Nobody worth talking to.

Catherynne M Valente

#19. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#20. A fool's wild speech confounds the wise.

Walter Scott

#21. Sometimes we woke up and feel like a Guitar Master, sometimes we woke up and feel like a complete fool. but that's the fun part of learning guitar

Tommy Emmanuel

#22. When you fool a fool you strike a blow for intelligence.

Giacomo Casanova

#23. You can't know everything in the world. Whatever happens you'll die a fool.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#24. She sits in the driveway, freezing, for thirty-six minutes. Arguing with herself. Because she thinks she's in love with him too. And there are two ways she can be a fool in love right now. She chooses the harder one. And knocks on the door.

Lisa McMann

#25. The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.

Rachel Cusk

#26. Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.

Michael Flynn

#27. He told himself he would pretend nothing was wrong, but he couldn't fool himself. He could forgive himself for having done something wrong, even something so immoral, so reckless. Harder to live with would be what would come next: living with the knowledge of what he'd done, but not letting on.

Erin O'Riordan

#28. Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.

Barbara Sher

#29. Proverbs 15:1-3 1 A gentle answer deflects anger, but harsh words make tempers flare. 2 The tongue of the wise makes knowledge appealing, but the mouth of a fool belches out foolishness.

Anonymous

#30. 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

#31. The moon by day the sun by night, deaf woman, blind men, jackdaw fool, let the lord of Chaos rule.

Robert Jordan

#32. From Elisha Comes to Red Horse:
I leave their politics and religion be. Folks can think the way they want, act the way they please, even to acting the fool. All I ask is they don't make too much noise and don't interfere with other people.

Louis L'Amour

#33. I appear to have no time for blondes
except for Bugs Bunny, dressed up as a woman, as he seduces the fool Fudd. That is a woman I could be, definitely: a cartoon man-rabbit dressed up as a girl, trying to have sex with a stuttering bald man. I could definitely do that.

Caitlin Moran

#34. How did you-"
Fool your guards? They're not very good, the forgot to check the ceiling for spiders."Valek grinned. His angular face softened.

Maria V. Snyder

#35. That great philosopher anonymous once said, never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.

Tucker Carlson

#36. Never had anyone said, Listen. Life is short. Pretend your body is still in its twenties. Jump for the brass ring. Swing for those bleachers. Dive into the deep end of the pool. Act like a fool if you must, but at least *live*.

Cathie Pelletier

#37. Betting against the point spread is a relatively mechanical trip, but betting against another individual can be very complex, if you're serious about it - because you want to know, for starters, whether you're betting against a fool or a wizard, or maybe against somebody who's just playing the fool.

Hunter S. Thompson

#38. mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it. Pasquale waited until the

Jess Walter

#39. My mother used to say that sometimes if you turn a tragedy over in your hand, you can see a miracle running through it, like fool's gold in the hardest shard of rock.

Jodi Picoult

#40. I don't want to fool with it but what choice have I got? They don't give you any choice now. I can let it go; but what will the next thing be? I didn't ask for any of this and if you've got to do it you've got to do it.

Ernest Hemingway,

#41. One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.

Vladimir Putin

#42. 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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Louis L'Amour

#44. Williams said only half-jokingly of her career, "Once I'm done, I can look back and say, 'I didn't make a fool out of myself.' " By JULIET MACUR

Anonymous

#45. What damn fool punches his own horse?

Tom Franklin

#46. A wise man learns from his mistakes;
a fool won't even learn from his fatal ones.
There is no such thing as an intentional mistake,
but no man is a fool accidentally.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#47. War is awful. Nothing, not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves, can glorify war. War is wretched beyond description and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. Whatever is won in war, it is loss the veteran remembers.

John McCain

#48. We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.

Giacomo Casanova

#49. It is easier to lie to yourself than hear others tell you that tell you that you are a fool.

Hilary Grossman

#50. I have no time to justify you, fool, youre blind, step aside from me

Dave Matthews Band

#51. It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

Joey Skaggs

#52. Only a fool trips on what's behind them.

Ray Lewis

#53. ...and I realized not without a sinking feeling that he was already completely in Feely's thrall, hanging on her every word like ball on a rubber string, nodding like a demented woodpecker, and grinning like a fool.

Alan Bradley

#54. An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair)

Idries Shah

#55. He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.

Groucho Marx

#56. Diogenes carried a bowl with him for years, but one day saw a man drinking from his cupped palm and declared, 'I have been a fool, burdened all these years by the weight of a bowl when a perfectly good vessel lay at the end of my wrist.

Christopher Moore

#57. To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

Anne Rice

#58. The question now isn't whether I want to fool around with this man. The question is how I'm ever going to give it up.

Sarina Bowen

#59. Thinking fool to someone is making fool to yourself.

Me

#60. I too can play the madman, the fool, the hero; in short, any or everything to rescue her I love.

James Fenimore Cooper

#61. Yeah. She's smiling. But don't let that fool you. Look into her eyes. She's breaking inside.

Unknown

#62. But he didnt want to be thought of as a fool. To walk around the town fully dressed and yet appear naked to the world was a shame he couldn't bear.

Carsten Jensen

#63. A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#64. It's odd to spend your vacation with someone else's music especially when you're alone. You're free to let loose, unobserved, but someone else has chosen the words you belt out in private, the rythms you can dance to like a fool.

Julia Glass

#65. I began counting each fool that passed me. I got up to 50 in two-and-one-half-minutes, then stepped into the next bar.

Charles Bukowski

#66. Her punishment was to be made to feel like a fool. She had been given her opportunity to participate in civilization, and she had muffled it.

Kurt Vonnegut

#67. Are you delusional Sonya? Your Robert may not seem to be going through a crisis because he's secretly banging his secretary or whatever other bitch wants to give up that pussy. Don't let him fool you. He's not complaining about you not giving it up because he's getting sniz on the reg

Jane Emery

#68. Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.

John Muir

#69. There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Charles Caleb Colton

#70. He didn't care if Matt made him cuddly or made him hornier than he'd ever been or even made him a lovesick fool. James was keeping him. Hopefully Matt would want to keep James too.

Anne Tenino

#71. Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.

George MacDonald

#72. The same thing. I feel like such a fool to discover it only now. So blatantly obvious, right in front of my face. Another of Henri's adages: Those things that are most obvious are the very things we're most likely to overlook. But Henri knew.

Pittacus Lore

#73. IF A MAN is forced to choose between the truth and his father, only a fool chooses the truth.

Greg Iles

#74. I just wanted to be your fool. But you were too fool to understand.

Arzum Uzun

#75. Wonderful?" wrote J.O. Young in his diary. "To stand cheering, crying, waving your hat and acting like a damn fool in general. No one who has spent all but 16 days of the this war as a Nip prisoner can really know what it means to see 'Old Sammy' buzzing around over camp.

Laura Hillenbrand

#76. As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.

Alain De Botton

#77. Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

Edward Young

#78. I have an idea. Let's take off our clothes and fool around on the settee. If I trip and fall and land smack-dab on your cock, then it won't be your fault.

Kresley Cole

#79. Don't let religion turn you into a fool

Sunday Adelaja

#80. She had always thought that she wanted someone to love her beyond all reason. Someone who would slay a regiment of knights to save her the slightest inconvenience.
She'd been wrong. That sort of fool left nothing but a swath of bloody knights in his wake.

Courtney Milan

#81. Nobody's easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right.

Haruki Murakami

#82. And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.

Sophocles

#83. If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.

William H Gass

#84. Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.

Criss Jami

#85. Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#86. The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Benjamin Franklin

#87. We can't fool ourselves that they will ever be enough to overthrow Capitalism. If we're serious about that we need to organise ourselves in our workplaces and communities, making the links with other workers internationally.

John Blair

#88. By 2003, every fool was getting into real estate. The checkout girl at my local supermarket handed me her newly printed real estate agent business card.

Robert Kiyosaki

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

Paulo Coelho

#90. Nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.

Lady Hester Stanhope

#91. The easiest person to fool is yourself.

Richard P. Feynman

#92. There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.

Mortimer J. Adler