Quotes About Fool Friends

#1. Strangers see you the way you want them to see you. You can't fool friends ... that's what makes them friends ...
Pretty Little Liars

Sara Shepard

#2. Government ought to be all outside and no inside ... Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

Woodrow Wilson

#3. You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Laurence J. Peter

#4. The means of many out way the means of the few or one.

Leonard Nimoy

#5. There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#6. Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk."
"Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober." He got up and stalked upstairs, feeling for the wall as if he thought it might escape him unless he kept in touch with it. His bedroom door did escape him.

Diana Wynne Jones

#7. Today is April 1, April Fools' Day, a day that people try to fool their friends and relatives. Don't confuse that with April 15, when people try to fool the IRS.

Jay Leno

#8. No worse bargain was ever made than the fool who traded friends for gold.

Shae Ford

#9. Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.

Blaise Pascal

#10. Folly plots a fool's death from the moment they become friends. Wisdom bestows blessings upon a wise man from the moment they wed.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#11. EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.

Ambrose Bierce

#12. To Fitz and the Fool.
My best friends for over twenty years.

Robin Hobb

#13. The early '20s were like the waist of an hourglass. Lots of things were hurtling toward it and squeezing through it and then hurtling out the other side.

Sarah Waters

#14. The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends.

Benjamin Franklin

#15. But no, he had to smell as good as he tasted, earthy and natural, like sex in the woods. He'd make a fantastic air freshener for some guy's man cave.
Ione, Larissa (2014-12-16). Revenant (Demonica) (p. 71). Grand Central Publishing. Kindle Edition.

Larissa Ione

#16. Man must begin, know this, where Nature ends; Nature and man can never be fast friends. Fool, if thou canst not pass her, rest her slave!

Matthew Arnold

#17. I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we could fool around, and drama was it because we'd do improvs, beating each other up. They left a year later, and I stayed in and got a knack for it, and enjoyed the whole process.

Adam Beach

#18. Those Russkies won't put up with your whining and bellyaching for one second. I believe in freedom and individual rights as well as the next man but nobody has the right to live here and do nothing but run us down.

Fannie Flagg

#19. I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn't know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they conformed better than I to a code. I wanted to conform but I couldn't so I wrote my poetry.

William Carlos Williams

#20. I used to be a fool ... A stubborn fool. I didn't know enough to stand by my friends. Now I'm just stubborn.

Chris Kurtz

#21. Once, maybe I would have thought you a fool, but ... well, that's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion? You have to shut out that voice that whispers about betrayal, and just hope that your friends aren't going to hurt you.

Brandon Sanderson

#22. The hardest-working people don't work hard because they're disciplined. They work hard because working on an exciting problem is fun.

Drew Houston

#23. Shut up!" Finn turned, furious. "Look at you both! The only friends I have in this hell and all you can do is fight over me. Do either of you care about me? Not the seer, the fighter, the fool who takes all the risks, but me, Finn?

Catherine Fisher

#24. You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry.
"No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.

J.K. Rowling

#25. I never, ever, saw the evil Steve Jobs. He was always the most well-mannered and respectful guy I knew. And we got to be pretty good friends. He didn't suffer fools gladly. I guess he didn't think I was a fool.

Nolan Bushnell

#26. I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.

Edgar Allan Poe

#27. You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?

Nathanael Emmons

#28. 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

#29. Scott Medlock. Some say he's a genius, some say he's a fool. I say he's the Jim Morrison of sports art, and proud to say, one of my closest friends.

Robby Krieger

#30. It is better to have an enemy than to have a fool for a friend.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#31. What a desperate, pathetic fool I was. Time after time, my "friends" had shown me their true colors. Yet, I still wanted to believe they were sorry for causing me pain. p. 128

Jodee Blanco

#32. In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.

Alberto Manguel

#33. Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.

Margaret Cavendish

#34. The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends .

Baltasar Gracian

#35. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Baltasar Gracian

#36. I have a kind of respect
a worshipful attitude, even
for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons ...

Sidney Poitier