Fool Some Of The People Quotes

#1. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people, some of the time, but you can fool yourself anytime you need to badly enough.

Hilari Bell

#2. Well, he thought, you can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be President of the United States, and on that useless profundity, Milligan himself pedalled on, himself, himself.

Spike Milligan

#3. You can fool some of the people some of the time
and that's enough to make a decent living.

W.C. Fields

#4. You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.

John Prine

#5. You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

George W. Bush

#6. They say you can fool some of the people all of the time. Accordingly, I think we should concentrate on this group initially. We can move on to the people you can only fool some of the time at a later date if we deem it necessary.

Stephen Mitchell

#7. It dawns on me that maybe I'm just terrifically lazy; that I might be appropriating other people's invisible sicknesses and disorders and scribbling them on the clipboard at the end of my bed to fool the nurses; so I can indulge in rest cures all day, every day. That I'm even fooling myself.

Jalina Mhyana

#8. The difference between a wise man and a fool is a wise man learns his lessons from other people's mistakes and a fool only learns from his own.

Duane "Dog" Chapman

#9. I envy these people. Wide-open suffering, their messes all hanging out. Lives boiled down to raw need--a near-holiness to it. And all of us driving our cars up and down the mountain--we'll go on forever trying to fool each other.

Jamie Quatro

#10. It's amazing how powerful a smile can be, even a forced one. It's all it takes to fool people into believing you're not falling apart inside.

Nicola Haken

#11. I'm not afraid to go completely over the top. A lot of people are scared to seem silly or to embarrass themselves, and I really don't have that at all - I don't mind making a fool of myself. I like to just have fun and really go for it.

Becki Newton

#12. I think that people like Bloomberg, they're complete thugs. No question about it. But on the other hand, it must be said that they are politically savvy. They don't get into those positions of power - in the case of Bloomberg, both economic and political power - by being anybody's fool.

Norman Finkelstein

#13. People say child stars have a hard time 'because of the entertainment business,' but I think there's a dysfunction before all that. I use the analogy, 'If you're a fool without money, you'll be a fool with money.'

Tia Mowry

#14. It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people, to promote public ignorance.

Rudy Giuliani

#15. People sometimes turn out to be almost the opposite of how they present. It isn't because they're trying to fool you or because they're hypocrites. It's because they badly want to be that thing, and so they'll try to be it.

Mary Gaitskill

#16. People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

Francis Bacon

#17. I think that sometimes I've been a little too nice. I think you have to have a balance. When you're too nice people take you for granted, they take you for a fool I think.

Godfrey

#18. Don Juan, in the teacings of Carlos Castaneda, makes the same point. You have to fool people into seeking knowlege. People will not do it of their own volition.

Frederick Lenz

#19. You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time.

Aesop

#20. The world always makes sure that you cannot fool yourself for long about who you really think you are by showing you what truly matters to you. How you react to people and situations, especially when challenges arise, is the best indicator of how deeply you know yourself.

Eckhart Tolle

#21. Only a fool tries to outsmart smart people, and anyone that tries to fool fools is himself already one.

William Faulkner

#22. I don't think I'm complicated at all. I'm not political, and I'm not trying to be diplomatic. I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, and I don't say bad things about people. There is no agenda. There's no trying to fool somebody.

Nick Saban

#23. I think I always resented the fact that people thought I was trying to entertain them with my multifaceted, chameleonlike character changes. Although I liked doing that, I wasn't out to fool people and say 'Guess which one is me.'

Cindy Sherman

#24. People usually will remember people most, for the stupid things they did, than the impressionable ones. This somehow strangely, makes them feel better.

Anthony Liccione

#25. There are lots of cycles to markets - boom and bust - and also in perceptions of people. The conventional wisdom of Steve Case as genius or fool was highly cyclical. The truth was always in the middle.

Steve Case

#26. You can fool a lot of the people some of the time, and a few of the people most of the time, but the only person you can fool all of the time is yourself.

Bruce T. Clark

#27. Now all is dashed wrong; by the fool's craving to hear evil of self, that haunts some people like a demon!

Emily Bronte

#28. Before anyone learns my last name, they always assume I have some type of Latin background in me somewhere. I love it! I think the Latin culture is sexy. It's one of my goals to learn to speak Spanish one day; then I will really be able to fool people!

Torrey DeVitto

#29. You can't depend on the kind of folks people think they are - you've got to go by what they do. And I wouldn't give much for a man that some folks hadn't thought was a fool, in his time.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#30. You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

#31. 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

#32. What made medicine fool people for so long was that its successes were prominently displayed and its mistakes (literally) buried.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#33. A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.

W. Somerset Maugham

#34. You can't make silly people stay away from you; all you can do is staying away from them.

M.F. Moonzajer

#35. It's a real buzz, even in front of 20 people, to make a complete fool of yourself. But people seemed to like it. And the thing is, if people started throwing tomatoes at me, I wouldn't have gone on with it.

Mick Jagger

#36. Several people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses.

Edsger Dijkstra

#37. And those people like my grandmother, who are so free with their insults and their slaps, who say that it is a tremendous honor and a fine step up for a ninny like me, might well consider that a fool can be jumped up, but a fool can also be thrown down; and who is going to catch me then?

Philippa Gregory

#38. Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?

Salman Rushdie

#39. You might have been able to fool people the first time, or something, but you really can't make a successful sequel today unless people really, really liked the predecessor.

Neal H. Moritz

#40. If people are always comfortable with you, you're probably not telling them the whole truth.

Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

#41. 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.

Hugh Jackman

#42. Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.

Ted Nelson

#43. The power we were given to think, is to enable us to live better lives, not fool more people.

Michael Brent Jones

#44. So how did you end up making a fool of yourself in front of twenty thousand people?
I had a bigger hole to fill.
What do you mean?
A rock star is someone with a hole in his heart almost the size of his ego.

Michka Assayas

#45. It's when I'm alone that the doubt sets in. It's been that way for years. As long as there are people around, I can pretend that everything's OK. But I need that audience to pretend for, otherwise it doesn't work. Alone, I'm not that easy to fool.

Cat Clarke

#46. It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others - playing people against one another, making them pursue you.

Robert Greene

#47. What I hate most in life are people who are not really the peach of the day but who want to be young and sexy. You can fool nobody. There is a moment when you have to accept that somebody else is younger and fresher and hotter. Life is not a beauty contest.

Karl Lagerfeld

#48. The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game.

Alan Watts

#49. Intelligent people need a fool to lead them. When the team's all a bunch of scientists, it is best to have a peasant lead the way. His way of thinking is different. It's easier to win if you have people seeing things from different perspectives.

Jack Ma

#50. Most liars can fool most people most of the time.

Paul Ekman

#51. I'm not scared to look like a complete fool in front of people. It's just not one of my insecurities.

Amy Smart

#52. These people who deal in fancification to fool the public think nobody can read and write but themselves.

Robert A. Heinlein

#53. I'd left with the notion that I'd made a fool of myself. I guess we never really do understand what people think of us. We spend so much time worrying about the impression we made, when in reality, they're probably thinking about what to cook for dinner instead.

Erica Larsen

#54. Some people', Miss R. said,'run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out that there is enough aesthetic excitement here to satisfy anyone but a damned fool.

Donald Barthelme