Top 100 Only A Fool Sayings
#2. If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.
Sebastian Faulks
#3. You know how in football, guys throw defenses, and the defense throws you a look, but the look is not really what it is - it's only made to fool you. It's the same thing with drugs. The drug is only an illusion to draw you in.
Rick Ross
#4. 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
#5. Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must be waged with a savage joy in defeating the enemy, and it is that savage joy that inspires our bards to write their greatest songs about love and war.
Bernard Cornwell
#6. A fellow's a fool when he marries who don't go to work deliberately to study and understand his wife. Women are awfully understandable if you only go at it right.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
#7. I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart.
Jim Butcher
#8. It is entirely impossible for man to rise into the air and float there. For this you would need wings of tremendous dimensions and they would have to be moved at three feet per second. Only a fool would expect such a thing to be realized.
Jerome Lalande
#9. Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
Jean De La Fontaine
#10. There is a certain animal vitality in most of us which carries us through any trouble but the absolutely overwhelming. Only a fool has no sorrow, only an idiot has no grief - but then only a fool and an idiot will let grief and sorrow ride him down into the grave.
Edward Abbey
#11. All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#12. Oh, if there were only a true religion. Fool that I am, I see a Gothic cathedral and venerable stained-glass windows, and my weak heart conjures up the priest to fit the scene. My soul would understand him, my soul has need of him. I only find a nincompoop with dirty hair.
Stendhal
#13. If you think that you can stop crime by catching us, locking us up, punishing us by brutal treatment, hanging or electrocuting us, sterilizing or castrating us, then you are a fool for thinking that way. That only makes bad matters worse.
Carl Panzram
#15. Who knows where the road will lead us
Only a fool would say,
But if you let me love you
I'm sure to love you all the way.
Frank Sinatra
#16. Nope, not Debby Demint!" His lips curved up while his eyes sparkled with amusement.
"You haven't even seen her. All the guys make fools of themselves over her."
"There's only one who I desire to make a fool of myself over."
Were all vampires as charming as Dominic?
Terry Spear
#17. I saved you," Andersen said at last, slowly but firmly, like Pat was an idiot child who had to be reminded of the basic rules of the universe. To wit: Gravity exists. Time purports to flow in a linear fashion, but it's only trying to fool us. I saved you.
Alex Gabriel
#18. I am just another blind man. I do not get the whole picture of what transpires in all places. I am blind and limited. I would be a fool to think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me.
Jim Butcher
#19. The common prejudice that love is as common as "romance" may be due to the fact that we all learned about it first through poetry. But the poets fool us; they are the only ones to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
Hannah Arendt
#20. I found my spirit wanted to choose between only two things - suicide, or the dreams I'd had in my youth. I am an old fool who borrowed the dreams of a young fool.
Kurt Vonnegut
#21. It's bad enough that you have to take market risk. Only a fool takes on the additional risk of doing yet more damage by failing to diversify properly with his or her nest egg. Avoid the problem-buy a well-run index fund and own the whole market.
William J. Bernstein
#22. Where only a fool would build a house on shifting sand, the same goes for those who would build their lives on a lie - eventually, it is going to crumble.
Maggi Myers
#24. Where only angels tread, he would be a fool to rush in; though perhaps the wise may preserve their dignity if, aware of their presumption, they enter cautiously.
Wilfred Cantwell Smith
#25. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
Roald Dahl
#26. Randall! Of course!" Roger smacked himself on the forehead, and felt his cheeks grow hot at Brianna's giggle. "You're going to think me a complete fool, but I've only just realized who you are.
Diana Gabaldon
#27. I'm a man of a certain age - old enough to have been every kind of fool- and I find to my surprise that the only counsel I have to pass on is this: Never let your name be found in a dead man's trousers.
Louis Bayard
#28. There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
Diogenes
#29. Patti, did art get us?'
I looked away, not really wanting to think about it. 'I don't know, Robert. I don't know.'
Perhaps it did, but no one could regret that. Only a fool would regret being had by art; or a saint.
Patti Smith
#30. 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
#31. Only a fool would turn away the love of a good woman, and I was no longer a fool.
Christin Lovell
#33. Only a fool would underestimate a man with nothing to lose.
Lance Conrad
#34. How could I, fool that I am, go on sitting in my office, or here at home, instead of leaping onto a train with my eyes shut and opening them only when I am with you?
Elias Canetti
#35. Guns are like men - only useful for a little while. They can go off at a moment's notice when you don't want them to and they make a lot of damn fool noise doing it.
R.S. Belcher
#36. 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
#37. This is why I hate things like love, not only it will turn me into a fool, it would also turn me into a complete failure.
Yoshiki Nakamura
#38. Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
George Bernard Shaw
#39. Too easily impressed," Evanna tutted, resuming her former appearance. "You shouldn't judge by what's on the outside. Only a fool falls for a pretty face. Are you fools?
Darren Shan
#40. Love is not only blind, but a fool, a stumbling mess falling backwards through showroom doors into atmospheres unwelcoming of his presence.
Alex Gaskarth
#41. Only a fool would blindly believe everything she was told.
Alison Goodman
#42. What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
Bette Davis
#43. What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only, that our illusions change as we go on; but, still, we are madmen all the same.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#44. Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.
Edward Abbey
#45. Only a fool thinks his enemies stand still when he isn't looking, my Lord Dragon.
Robert Jordan
#46. It is easy to kill. It is equally easy to destroy glass windows. Any fool can do either. Why is it only the wise who perceive that it is wisdom to let live, when even lunatics can sometimes understand that it is better to open a window than to smash the glass?
S.M. Stirling
#47. Run for the hills. The Bible commands us to "flee immorality" (1 Corinthians 6:18). Only a fool says, "I can handle temptation without sinning." The wise man says, "I'm not going anywhere near it.
Stephen Kendrick
#48. War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
John McCain
#50. The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.
Orson Scott Card
#51. You've pulled off some shocking upsets in the past, but only a fool would bet on you this time. So I will.
Brandon Mull
#53. Since 99.362% of women love mustache rides, it seems only a fool would have a bare upper lip.
Albert Einstein
#54. Only a fool tries to outsmart smart people, and anyone that tries to fool fools is himself already one.
William Faulkner
#55. Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.
Gabrielle Zevin
#57. A man and a woman cannot live together without having against each other a kind of everlasting joke. Each has discovered that the other is not only a fool, but a great fool.
Dean Koontz
#58. I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool, an optimist must know what a sad place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
Peter Ustinov
#59. Besh grinned. Only a fool would choose to justify himself by likening his actions to those of a bigger fool.
David B. Coe
#60. The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
Edward Abbey
#62. What a strange creature is a laughing fool,
As if a man were created to no use
But only to show his teeth.
John Webster
#63. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Ben Jonson
#64. To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal - to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself.
Hunter S. Thompson
#66. A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
Oliver Goldsmith
#67. Cruelty is a skill taught not only by example, but also by experience of it.
Robin Hobb
#68. Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and lithe arms. She was a fool, not for wanting him, but for wanting more of him than that.
Patricia A. McKillip
#69. When I am wrong, he is delighted to forgive. When I am angry, he clowns to make me smile. When I am happy, he is joy unbounded. When I am a fool, he ignores it. When I succeed, he brags. Without him, I am only another man. With him, I am all-powerful. He is loyalty itself.
Gene Hill
#70. The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.
Jean De La Bruyere
#71. I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.
Maria Callas
#72. Anyone who thinks they can write the perfect comedy that everyone will love is a fool. I can only write what I think is funny and hope that there is a likeminded audience out there.
Brendan O'Carroll
#73. Love will make you weak and indecisive, remember?" she murmured.
What a fool he had been. For a journey like theirs, love was the only thing that would make him strong enough.
"Don't ever listen to an idiot like me," he answered.
Sherry Thomas
#74. Ours is a love that won't be dispelled simply by ignoring it. It can't be concealed by separation. The heart knows no distance, only misery. It will never let me forget her, and I'm a fool if I think I can.
K.J. Bell
#76. You could love the sleek, efficient beauty of a brand-new bullet train, but only a fool could imagine it would love you back.
Maggie Stiefvater
#77. Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove.
George R R Martin
#78. You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.
Charles Bukowski
#79. Never covet what a fool has;
a fool is only allowed to keep his madness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#80. 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.
Ben Nicholson
#81. Brutality is the refuge of the dull of mind, ka-lyrra. Only a fool conquers when he might instead seduce.
~Adam Black to Gabrielle O'Callaghan
Karen Marie Moning
#82. In a world of limitations, only a fool would hesitate to touch the infinite.
Rhoads Brazos
#83. The only difference between a wise man and a fool was in the magnitude of his mistakes. To err was human, and the smarter and more powerful you were, the greater the scope of your screwup.
Tom Clancy
#84. Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.
Ariel Durant
#85. Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.
Michael Reed
#86. Only a fool chooses to live in ignorance when knowledge is so easily obtained.
Jeaniene Frost
#87. And this is Nymphadora-"
"Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus," said the young witch with a shudder. "It's Tonks."
"-Nymphadora Tonks, who prefers to be known by her surname only," finished Lupin.
"So would you if your fool of a mother had called you 'Nymphadora,' " muttered Tonks.
J.K. Rowling
#88. Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.
John McCain
#89. I don't care if you think I'm a Saint or a fool or the Darkling's whore. If you want to remain at the Little Palace you will follow me. And if you don't like it, you will be gone by tonight, or I will have you in chains. I am a solider. I am the Sun Summoners. And I'm the only chance you have.
Leigh Bardugo
#90. I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ
Anais Nin
#91. As the philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote, It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are a different opinion, it is because they know only their own side of the question.
Daniel M. Gilbert
#92. Marietta is good for you, Gabriel. I quite like her. Don't be a fool and let her go."
"I can do nothing but let her go, John. Sometimes love can only be given by setting someone free.
Anne Mallory
#93. Only a fool would make the bed every day.
Nancy Spain
#94. Intelligent men never do a business; only a fool kills his own beautiful instincts for the sake of a word profit.
Thiruman Archunan
#96. There isn't any question that Hollywood is profit driven. Anybody that thinks it isn't is a fool. It's a business. Hollywood was never philanthropy. The only purpose it had was making money; the only purpose it still has is to make money.
Sydney Pollack
#97. In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#98. Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.
Jeanette Winterson
#99. It is true that a man who does this is a fool. I have only proved that a man who does anything else is an even bigger fool.
Julian Coolidge
#100. If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.
Laozi
