Top 100 Only A Fool Sayings
#1. 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
#2. Only a fool closes the door when the wolf is already inside the barn.
Orson Scott Card
#3. He steps over to me and takes the empty bowl from my hand, setting it on the desk. Grasping my chin, he pulls my face up so I'll look at him. His thumb brushes across my bottom lip, and he's quiet for a minute before whispering, "Only a fool would be bothered by being with you.
J.M. Darhower
#4. Only a fool is humiliated by having been weak enough to have to overcome obstacles.
Evangeline Walton
#5. Thank you for your news, Princess. It is none of it happy, but only a fool desires cheerful ignorance and I try not to be a fool. That is my heaviest burden.
Tad Williams
#6. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.
Bertrand Russell
#7. Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports
in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place.
Paul Kurtz
#8. Because only a fool believes everything they read or are told.
Larissa Ione
#10. The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it
Louis De Bernieres
#11. Only a fool unleashes the storm winds of fear, Ralf. Since no man has the power to direct how they may blow, they could just as easily destroy those who hope most to benefit from them, although the innocent always suffer long before that happens.
Priscilla Royal
#13. There's a time when a man needs to fight and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny's lost, the ship has sailed and that only a fool will continue. The truth is I've always been a fool.
John August
#14. Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.
Edward Abbey
#15. Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
Malcolm X
#16. Only a fool will accept a gift you cannot keep. You can't keep anything from the world but salvation is wise and everlasting. John 3:16
Felix Wantang
#18. Only a fool thinks a lion or a woman can truly be tamed.
Robert Jordan
#19. Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)
George R R Martin
#20. IF A MAN is forced to choose between the truth and his father, only a fool chooses the truth.
Greg Iles
#22. The assassin in the night. The fire on the Jana. The woman in Judgment Square. Each event had led Merik here, to Noden's temple. To a fresco of the god's Left Hand.
And only a fool ignored Noden's gifts.
Susan Dennard
#23. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.
Assata Shakur
#24. Of all the ways to die, only a fool chooses pride.
V.E Schwab
#25. Only a fool trips on what's behind them.
Ray Lewis
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
Otto Von Bismarck
#29. Only a fool would argue with a woman, let alone this woman - she'd win the argument and then kill the man for her troubles.
K.F. Breene
#31. There was something she wasn't telling me, but I had to trust her - only a fool ignores a local guide. "Okay,
Jasper Fforde
#32. Creon: See that you never side with those who break my orders.
Leader: Never. Only a fool could be in love with death.
Creon: Death is the price - you're right. But all too often the mere hope of money has ruined many men.
Sophocles
#33. It came to Mr. Blood, as he trudged forward under the laden apple-trees on that fragrant, delicious July morning, that man - as he had long suspected - was the vilest work of God, and that only a fool would set himself up as a healer of a species that was best exterminated.
Rafael Sabatini
#34. Only a fool takes pride in pretending that a skill he doesn't possess is worthless.
Bernard Cornwell
#35. If there is a difference between what is said and what is done, only a fool believes what was said.
Frank Herbert
#36. Forget grief. Only an idiot has no grief, and only a fool would forget it. What else is there in this world sharp enough to stick to your guts?
William Faulkner
#37. Only a fool would be patient enough to stay in a totalitarian love affair, and only the insincere will use anarchy to commit the sin of unfaithfulness.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#38. When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.
James Frey
#39. Do you think I'm stupid? Only a fool would use a fast-acting poison on a target with a taster. The taster goes down before the king gets it into his system.
Lila blinked at him, as if surprised by this display of logic.
Cinda Williams Chima
#40. She has craters
but only a fool can deny her beauty.
She silently stare sun whole night
& reflects his light
his love with stars at times.
Lokesh Fouzdar
#42. Only a fool would be fighting them, my queen, and though I am a fool, I'm not that foolish. (Lutian)
Kinley MacGregor
#43. A wise man can't seriously make himself anything, only a fool makes himself anything.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#45. Mary Sibley: So, love is to a woman what war is to a man: the most deadly thing they'll do. Only a fool runs quickly to war or love.
Salem
#46. Only a fool trys to outsmart smart people, and anyone that trys to fool fools is himself already one.
~William Faulkner~
William Faulkner
#48. The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#49. I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.
Robert A. Heinlein
#50. Only a fool makes threats he's not prepared to carry out. If I were to threaten to hit you unless you shut your mouth, and you presumed to speak, what do you think I'd do?
George R R Martin
#51. To admit the presence of fear isn't weakness. Only a fool would pretend that he is never fearful.
Harold J. Sala
#52. I like this book and I especially like the title. Only a fool or a whore would call it anything else.
Hunter S. Thompson
#53. Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.
Jessamyn West
#54. Only a fool lies brooding over his problems. When the morning comes he's tired out and his problems are the same as before.
Robert Lyndon
#55. Only a fool gets burned twice by the same fire.
Jay Crownover
#56. I hope he didn't cross Kaz Brekker," Nina said with a shudder.
"Wylan wouldn't--"
"Of course not," said Nina as she shook out the cuffs of her kefta and prepared to exit the dining room." Only a fool would.
Leigh Bardugo
#58. But only a fool thought he knew what was in a woman's head just because she had a smile on her face.
Robert Jordan
#60. Only a fool loves war," said Calvar, "or a man who has never seen it. The trouble is that the survivors forget about the horrors and remember only the battle lust. They pass on that memory, and other men hunger for it.
David Gemmell
#62. No one but a fool, and only a fool of a peculiar description, feels offended by the acknowledgment that there are others whose opinion, and even whose wish, is entitled to a greater amount of consideration than his.
John Stuart Mill
#63. Only a fool can believe people are basically good
Dennis Prager
#64. Equality is a myth to protect the weak. some of us are strong in the Force, others are not. Only a fool believes otherwise.
Drew Karpyshyn
#65. A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
Stendhal
#66. This is love that surrounds, only a fool without wisdom can see. Blind as I am in your eyes, my lady of dreams.
Jon Anderson
#69. Trust is like glass. Lovely, but only a fool rests lots of weight on it.
Joe Abercrombie
#70. Only a fool believes a thing of value will be laid in her lap with no reckoning.
Brian Staveley
#71. Her eyes opened and clashed with his. Kyran had the insane urge to lean down and kiss her. Twice in a matter of hours. If he were smart, he'd put some distance between them.
Then again, only a fool would walk away from someone like her.
And Kyran wasn't a fool.
Donna Grant
#72. Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#73. Fight for what you love. For what's important. Cherish it. Only a fool believes there's a good enough reason to le love go.
A.L. Jackson
#74. Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
Lars Von Trier
#78. Only a fool chooses to live in ignorance when knowledge is so easily obtained.
Jeaniene Frost
#79. Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.
Ariel Durant
#80. In a world of limitations, only a fool would hesitate to touch the infinite.
Rhoads Brazos
#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. 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
#85. 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
#87. The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
Edward Abbey
#88. Besh grinned. Only a fool would choose to justify himself by likening his actions to those of a bigger fool.
David B. Coe
#89. 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
#91. 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
#92. Only a fool tries to outsmart smart people, and anyone that tries to fool fools is himself already one.
William Faulkner
#93. Since 99.362% of women love mustache rides, it seems only a fool would have a bare upper lip.
Albert Einstein
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#99. 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
#100. Only a fool would turn away the love of a good woman, and I was no longer a fool.
Christin Lovell
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