Top 100 Only Fools Quotes

#1. Listen to others' advice and deliberate yourself. Only fools acts thoughtlessly, without consideration!

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

Only Fools Quotes #2598
#2. Only fools make permanent decisions without knowledge.

Mike Murdock

Only Fools Quotes #6780
#3. Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

King Solomon

Only Fools Quotes #22809
#4. Be real, because a mask only fools people on the outside. Pretending to be someone you're not takes a toll on the real you, and the real you is more important than anyone else.

Alex Gaskarth

Only Fools Quotes #35664
#5. Only Fools follow Folly

Marcelle Hinkson

Only Fools Quotes #55835
#6. Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life on this planet.

John Fowles

Only Fools Quotes #102283
#7. Troube comes when a person starts asking for money; it never does what they think it will do. And then there's the problem of destiny. Things never turn out well when you try to outwit destiny. Only fools do that.

Kate Milford

Only Fools Quotes #113254
#8. Only fools do not fear.

Norman Crane

Only Fools Quotes #157400
#9. Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.

Philippa Gregory

Only Fools Quotes #171263
#10. Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to get to the best possible cut.

Wim Wenders

Only Fools Quotes #177243
#11. Nobel Prize in Literature [10w]
Only fools and Swedes equate literary prizes with literary merit.

Beryl Dov

Only Fools Quotes #205530
#12. Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.

Rex Stout

Only Fools Quotes #216993
#13. To die for a cause is insanity; man's greatest cause is to live; his biggest purpose is to stay alive! Only fools die for a cause! Which cause can be superior to man's life?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Only Fools Quotes #324666
#14. Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism
unless the criticized isn't within earshot.

William Faulkner

Only Fools Quotes #436327
#15. Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.

George Bernard Shaw

Only Fools Quotes #437081
#16. He put his hand over hers. "Am I a coward?"
"Because you are afraid? No. Only fools are never afraid.

Sherry Thomas

Only Fools Quotes #443685
#17. There are only fools who believe that art is a serious matter.

Julien Torma

Only Fools Quotes #487013
#18. Fearing, you climbed the mountain. Fearing, you faced its dangers. And fearing, you went on. That is real bravery, Rowan. Only fools do not fear. Sheba knew that. Sheba knew everything all along.

Emily Rodda

Only Fools Quotes #510168
#19. I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category.

Brendan O'Carroll

Only Fools Quotes #594872
#20. Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Proverbs 1:7 NLT

Eddie Johnson

Only Fools Quotes #619558
#21. Long ago, after a bad fall, her father had explained that only fools were fearless. We meet rear, he'd said. We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arrives, something is about to happen. (p51)

Leigh Bardugo

Only Fools Quotes #625444
#22. Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.

Laozi

Only Fools Quotes #657615
#23. Of course he was afraid of war. Only fools are not. Anaxantis was no fool. He was fully prepared to fight, but only as a last resort.

Andrew Ashling

Only Fools Quotes #662078
#24. Only fools worship their tools

Dee Hock

Only Fools Quotes #662379
#25. Mind is tricky. If I say this is very difficult, the mind says, "This is so difficult it is beyond you." If I say this is very simple, the mind says, "This is so simple that only fools can believe in it." And mind goes on rationalizing things, always escaping from doing.

Osho

Only Fools Quotes #668525
#26. Only fools, pure theorists, or apprentices fail to take public opinion into account.

Jacques Necker

Only Fools Quotes #691711
#27. I have observed that in comedies the best actor plays the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the fine gentleman or hero. Thus it is in the farce of life. Wise men spend their time in mirth; it is only fools who are serious.

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Only Fools Quotes #734182
#28. Only fools don't contradict themselves

Andre Gide

Only Fools Quotes #751655
#29. Only fools are certain.

V.E Schwab

Only Fools Quotes #755158
#30. Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart.

Jack Ma

Only Fools Quotes #803833
#31. Only fools want to be great.

T.H. White

Only Fools Quotes #861216
#32. No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand ... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

Anton Chekhov

Only Fools Quotes #907154
#33. Never tripping off the past, I would rather never mind 'em/'Cause only fools trip over something that be behind 'em

Fabolous

Only Fools Quotes #950869
#34. Pain is a teacher, as I have told you before. Most people fear it. We do not. We would never stop a child from touching a burning piece of wood. We would warn, but never prevent. Wisdom comes through listening to those with more experience. Only fools blunder through unnecessary pain.

Jeff Wheeler

Only Fools Quotes #968874
#35. War, for any cause, is inexcusable. There is nothing which excuses us for the beastly ingenuity of our wars. Only fools, only the diseased, think that we are served by killing the strong young men with machines.

Storm Jameson

Only Fools Quotes #991704
#36. Of course, only fools believed in perfection. Only lunatics tried to achieve it.

Natalie French

Only Fools Quotes #1004065
#37. Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don't understand truth, nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant? Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non-vegetarian?

Guru Nanak

Only Fools Quotes #1013100
#38. Only fools prefer the past!

Frank Herbert

Only Fools Quotes #1044916
#39. That is for me decide, not you. It is said that only fools stand in the way of a new idea; I trust, magisters, that there are no fools among you.

Sarah Prineas

Only Fools Quotes #1091539
#40. Only fools think that men and women love differently. Fools and pedagogues. I tell you, the love of men for women is just as heartbreaking, just as muddled, just as bewildering, and in the end, just as unfinished.

Edna O'Brien

Only Fools Quotes #1112249
#41. For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content with declaring that life would not be worth living without a spark of that mysterious fire.

Robert Musil

Only Fools Quotes #1168820
#42. Only fools insist upon life at any cost ... Others would say that life may be laid down when it becomes too heavy. Where does it go, after all, but into the keeping of the Powers who gave it and will give it once again?

Sheri S. Tepper

Only Fools Quotes #1197994
#43. Only fools mistake politicians for messiahs.

Kevin Barrett

Only Fools Quotes #1228858
#44. The math was irrefutable: The one winning strategy was concealment. Only fools revealed their birthdays.

Peter Watts

Only Fools Quotes #1266376
#45. - Only fools and the dead never change their mind.

Laird Barron

Only Fools Quotes #1295621
#46. Only fools skirmish in their backyard when war is knocking down their front door.

Stuart Hill

Only Fools Quotes #1308743
#47. 'Only Fools and Horses' was just one of those shows that could keep on going and going, that excited me. 'Hartbeat with Tony Hart' and 'Rolf's Cartoon Club' were my huge favourites, though. I used to love drawing and always sent work in to the show.

Russell Tovey

Only Fools Quotes #1309049
#48. Only fools and passengers drink at sea.

Alan Villiers

Only Fools Quotes #1325521
#49. Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.

Franz Grillparzer

Only Fools Quotes #1333169
#50. Friend," replied Michael Strogoff, "Heaven reward thee for all thou hast done for me!"
"Only fools expect reward on earth," replied the mujik.

Jules Verne

Only Fools Quotes #1343671
#51. Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.

Charles De Lint

Only Fools Quotes #1344554
#52. Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

Only Fools Quotes #1380672
#53. Only fools think bigness and greatness are the same thing.

Marty Rubin

Only Fools Quotes #1390455
#54. Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't.

John Henry Patterson

Only Fools Quotes #1399020
#55. All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.

John Stuart Blackie

Only Fools Quotes #1405596
#56. There's this old line the wise folks in Washington have that "it's not the crime, but the cover-up." But only fools believe that. It's always about the crime. The whole point of the cover-up is that a full revelation of the underlying crime is not survivable.

Josh Marshall

Only Fools Quotes #1415831
#57. Wise men say, only fools rush in. Wise men are so slow.

Bob Saget

Only Fools Quotes #1428923
#58. In the end maybe the brave ones are also the foolish ones. Maybe only fools are ever truly brave.

Mikaela Everett

Only Fools Quotes #1446873
#59. No fool can play chess, and only fools do.

Marc Lowrance

Only Fools Quotes #1460925
#60. Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?

Orhan Pamuk

Only Fools Quotes #1484356
#61. Only fools sow one thing and expect to reap another.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Only Fools Quotes #1518890
#62. You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.

Billy Joel

Only Fools Quotes #1526560
#63. Your negative actions will always speak over top of your kind words and only fools listen where the wise watch.

Tara Brown

Only Fools Quotes #1536199
#64. Only fools are positive.

Moe Howard

Only Fools Quotes #1554522
#65. We will declare frankly that nothing is clear in this world. Only fools and charlatans know and understand everything. - ANTON CHEKHOV

Stacy Schiff

Only Fools Quotes #1573639
#66. Courage is not the absence of fear. Only fools have no fear.
Rather, courage is the intellectual mastery of fear by understanding
the true risks and opportunities of the situation and keeping those
things in balance

Julian Assange

Only Fools Quotes #1579072
#67. Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes

Charles Francis Richter

Only Fools Quotes #1647489
#68. Only fools pity survivors their scars and you should never kowtow to fools

Jeaniene Frost

Only Fools Quotes #1705867
#69. It wasn't Hell; only fools and drama queens throw that word around about a place like Gotham. It was worse, in a way, because it was manmade. There wasn't any timeless malevolence behind it all, it was just ... what human beings can descend to when they let themselves forget they can be heroes.

Chris Dee

Only Fools Quotes #1715115
#70. This clay, so strong of heart, of sense so fine,
Surely such clay is more than half divine
'Tis only fools speak evil of the clay,
The very stars are made of clay like mine.

Omar Khayyam

Only Fools Quotes #1746661
#71. Only fools assume.

Suzanne Rindell

Only Fools Quotes #1773415
#72. Wise men say, only fools rush in. But I can't help, falling in love with you.

Elvis Presley

Only Fools Quotes #1817317
#73. Experience seems to convince us that only fools trust, that only fools believe and accept all things. If this is true, then love is most foolish. For if it is not founded on trust, belief and acceptance, it's not love.

Leo Buscaglia

Only Fools Quotes #1828609
#74. Profits and prices are the street signs of the economy. Only fools flout them. The much-maligned price system works not only to secure supply but to conserve.

Ilana Mercer

Only Fools Quotes #1855896
#75. Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

Zhuangzi

Only Fools Quotes #1857501
#76. Only fools and cowards scorned fear. Fear keeps you alive.

Victoria Schwab

Only Fools Quotes #1866671
#77. Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

Ezra Taft Benson

Only Fools Quotes #1879304
#78. Is not all the stupid chatter of most of our newspapers the babble of fools who suffer from the fixed idea of morality, legality, christianity and so forth, and only seem to go about free because the madhouse in which they walk takes in so broad a space?

Max Stirner

Only Fools Quotes #2863
#79. Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Benjamin Franklin

Only Fools Quotes #3397
#80. They are fools who kiss and tell'
Wisely has the poet sung.
Man may hold all sorts of posts
If he'll only hold his tongue.

Rudyard Kipling

Only Fools Quotes #14657
#81. There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.

Henry Ford

Only Fools Quotes #68424
#82. 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

Only Fools Quotes #84560
#83. Haydn snorts. "Only gullible, lovesick fools spout that mushy crap." Thank the stars that his tone is teasing, because I can sense Logan's patience waning.
"When you find the right girl, I'm so going to make you eat your words. And I'm going to thoroughly enjoy rubbing your nose in it.

Siobhan Davis

Only Fools Quotes #88174
#84. You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fever. You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your children. Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire every time.

George R R Martin

Only Fools Quotes #95707
#85. And what else is it that men seek in life but power? If they want money, it is but for the power that attends it, and it is power again that they strive for in all the knowledge they acquire. Fools and sots aim at happiness, but men aim only at power.

W. Somerset Maugham

Only Fools Quotes #123649
#86. Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.

Lester B. Pearson

Only Fools Quotes #124735
#87. I am only a cup that knowledge holds. It does not to knowledge matter how poor the cup is. It is the wisdom of those who drink of me that me wise makes. Fools make a sibyl foolish, wherever she is.

Joan D. Vinge

Only Fools Quotes #132503
#88. Everything teaches, everyone preaches, all have a gospel to sell! Better the one who is honest and open in declaring an agenda than the one who fools you into believing they are only spinning a pretty fancy for beauty's sake.

Karen Lord

Only Fools Quotes #144044
#89. All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Only Fools Quotes #162204
#90. 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

Only Fools Quotes #168506
#91. The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

Only Fools Quotes #178527
#92. Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

Marquis De Sade

Only Fools Quotes #211981
#93. Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

Benito Mussolini

Only Fools Quotes #213720
#94. I cannot tolerate fools - won't have anything to do with them. I only want to associate with brilliant people.

Ida Lupino

Only Fools Quotes #225111
#95. Idleness is only the refuge of weak
minds, and the holiday of fools.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

Only Fools Quotes #225803
#96. And a real, undoubted grief is sometimes capable of making a solid and steadfast man even out of a phenomenally light-minded one, if only for a short time; moreover, real and true grief has sometimes even made fools more intelligent, also only for a time, of course; grief has this property.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Only Fools Quotes #245271
#97. Everyone gets scared at times. It's only the fools who won't admit it.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

Only Fools Quotes #254987
#98. Only a fool tries to outsmart smart people, and anyone that tries to fool fools is himself already one.

William Faulkner

Only Fools Quotes #258101
#99. My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.

Michelle Shocked

Only Fools Quotes #274034
#100. A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Only Fools Quotes #278190

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