Top 100 Quotes About A Fool
#1. Knowing it without understanding it is enough for one to be qualified a fool;
Understanding without relative adherence, masters one in foolishness.
Caleb Ricketts
#2. A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
Gerald Brenan
#3. A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.
Erasmus Darwin
#4. I was a fool, and I will always be a fool, and there will never, never, be a last day of school.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#5. Nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.
Lady Hester Stanhope
#6. 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
#7. Fashion, ah yes. A fool's game, if I am not mistaken.
K.F. Breene
#8. The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Benjamin Franklin
#10. 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
#12. In truth, it made me pity him, and see him as a fool.
Alice Walker
#14. And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.
Sophocles
#16. 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
#17. IF A MAN is forced to choose between the truth and his father, only a fool chooses the truth.
Greg Iles
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.
George Orwell
#22. The group of stupid people collectively treats or makes an intelligent amongst them look like duffer and a fool living in a big network of enlightened minds even starts behaving sensibly in life.
Anuj
#23. Anyone who searches for the meaning of life is on a fool's journey. Human life has no redeeming purpose or value. - the cymek GENERAL AGAMEMNON, A Time for Titans
Brian Herbert
#24. I'm a fool with a size one head/
I'll change this heart of mine/
This time, this time
Richard Thompson
#25. As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool.
Anne Sexton
#26. Barry's of a mind it's better to be silent and presumed a fool than to open your mouth and remove doubt altogether.
Mark Frost
#27. 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
#28. He's the guy who'll do a ridiculous robot dance to make you laugh, who'll lick the tip of your nose, make a fool out of himself for a smile. I'm sure if I tried to wrestle him to the ground, he'd let me win. And enjoy every minute.
Christina Lauren
#29. I was dupedby the Secretary of the treasury [Alexander Hamilton], and made a fool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently understood by me; and of all the errors of my political life, this has occasioned the deepest regret.
Thomas Jefferson
#30. They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool.
John Lennon
#31. It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor to feel shame loses Paradise himself.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#32. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.
Assata Shakur
#33. What a wise man does with one dollar is greater than what a fool does with ten thousand.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#34. And all this time he was cheating on me! Making a fool out of me! He made me look stupid in front of everyone!
Amanda Laneley
#35. Of all the ways to die, only a fool chooses pride.
V.E Schwab
#37. Being lucky is a fool's dream, winning through deceit is a coward's intent, success without caring for others is a complete failure.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#38. Only the man who thinks himself a fool is as wise as he thinks.
Criss Jami
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
Anne Rice
#44. 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
#45. ...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
#46. Only a fool trips on what's behind them.
Ray Lewis
#47. It is easier to lie to yourself than hear others tell you that tell you that you are a fool.
Hilary Grossman
#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. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
Louis L'Amour
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. That great philosopher anonymous once said, never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.
Tucker Carlson
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#69. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
Otto Von Bismarck
#74. [W]e avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble[.
Giacomo Casanova
#75. 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
#76. Find out what the next thing is that you can push, that you can invent, that you can be ignorant about, that you can be arrogant about, that you can fail with, and that you can be a fool with. Because in the end, that's how you grow.
Paula Scher
#77. 11As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his foolishness.
Anonymous
#78. All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise.
Vincent Bugliosi
#79. Marshall Shafter ... kept pasted in his desk drawer a piece of paper he looked at from time to time to remind himself of something. It said, A fool can put on his own clothes better than wise man can do it for him.
Jane Jacobs
#80. So do extremes meet; and such is sometimes the all-embracing capacity of the approval of a fool!
Wilkie Collins
#82. There is justice nowhere for a fool. A fool they whip even in the Holy Temple.
Anzia Yezierska
#84. 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
#85. Over the years I had convinced myself that brutality required motive, but this is a fool's deceit. Cruelty is the motive; religion and politics and resources are simply the cloth man weaves to curtain his desires for violence.
Lee Thomas
#86. My Father always told me that a fool at 40 is a fool for life.
Idris Elba
#87. Only a fool takes pride in pretending that a skill he doesn't possess is worthless.
Bernard Cornwell
#89. Better be a foole then a knave.
[Better be a fool than a knave.]
George Herbert
#90. I knew that I just didn't have it in me to give up, even if I sometimes felt like a fool for continuing to believe.
Misty Copeland
#91. If there is a difference between what is said and what is done, only a fool believes what was said.
Frank Herbert
#92. The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.
Stephen King
#93. Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Henry Fielding
#94. Anyone who pretends to "understand" Latin America is a fool.
Michael Hogan
#95. It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#96. I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.
George Orwell
#97. If you never see a fool
You'll always be happy.
The one who keeps company with fools
Will be sorry for a long time.
It's painful to live with fools,
Like being always with an enemy.
Anonymous
#98. But you don't even like being a Fool!" "I hate it. But that's got nothing to do with it. If I've got to be a Fool, I'll do it properly." "That's really stupid," said Magrat. "Foolish, I'd prefer." The
Terry Pratchett
#99. A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.
Sophocles
#100. I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
William Shakespeare
