Top 100 The Fool Quotes
#1. Thus says the fool: Association with men spoils the character, especially when one has none.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#2. The person who constantly studies without doing spiritual practice is like the fool who attempts to live in the blueprint of a house.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#3. A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.
Gautama Buddha
#4. Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?
Theodore Roosevelt
#5. Only the fool wants to go into battle to beat someone for the satisfaction of beating someone.
Frederick Lenz
#6. When the evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow to the fool, then it destroys his bright lot, nay, it cleaves his head.
Max Muller
#7. When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.
Phyllis McGinley
#8. This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
Michel Foucault
#9. The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
Alexander Pope
#10. Knowledge does not equate to intelligence. It is the application of knowledge that separates the genius from the fool.
Niquenya D. Fulbright
#11. To-morrow I will live, the fool does say;
To-day itself's too late, the wise lived yesterday.
Martial
#12. It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.
William Hazlitt
#14. When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.
Pablo Neruda
#15. The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.
Carl Van Vechten
#16. In Shakespeare's play As You Like It, Touchstone says to Audrey in the Forest of Arden "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." (Act V, Scene I).
Karolina Achirri
#17. Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their beauty or their ingenuity, without being blind to the fact that they are human veils and curtains concealing the abysmal darkness of the unknowable
Carl Jung
#18. Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.
Tacitus
#19. the wise man needs nothing and yet he can make good use of anything, whereas the fool 'needs' countless things but can make good use of none of them.
Donald J. Robertson
#20. My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.
George Santayana
#21. The fool learns by suffering.
Hesiod
#22. I am Tersa the Weaver, Tersa the Liar, Tersa the Fool.
Anne Bishop
#23. The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
#24. CHORUS: And so, while the fool slept the sleep of the dead, the beautiful Jewess snipped off the tip of his willy.
Christopher Moore
#25. He growled and stood up. "There is a knocking without," he said.
"Without what?" said the Fool.
"Without the door, idiot."
The Fool gave him a worried look. "A knocking without a door?" he said suspiciously. "This isn't some kind of Zen, is it?
Terry Pratchett
#26. A Warrior also knows that the fool who gives advice about someone else's garden is not tending his own plants.
Paulo Coelho
#27. Insisting on maintaining dignity at all costs is paralyzing. Mistakes are informative, and so is playing the fool
Patrick Califia-Rice
#28. Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.
Owen Feltham
#29. The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.
Elbert Hubbard
#30. Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
Alexander Pope
#31. No worse bargain was ever made than the fool who traded friends for gold.
Shae Ford
#32. I've fallen in love with you. I love you even now when you sit before me with the eyes of a wolf. So take pity upon the fool I have become. I forgot it was only a bargain between us.
Ronda Thompson
#33. Now all is dashed wrong; by the fool's craving to hear evil of self, that haunts some people like a demon!
Emily Bronte
#34. What many men desire
that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach, Which pries not to th' interior, but like the martlet Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road of casualty.
William Shakespeare
#36. The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
Epicurus
#37. Fish," the fool declared happily, waving a cod about like a scepter. "Under the sea, the fish eat us.
George R R Martin
#39. Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.
William Congreve
#40. Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
Mark Twain
#42. As parents one of the biggest jobs we have, is teaching our children how to resolve problems effectively. We live in an era where everyone is quick to act the fool over simple issues. As we used to say when I was on the streets, 'everybody wants to cut a movie'.
Drexel Deal
#44. So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make him aggressive. A fool must therefore be treated more cautiously than a scoundrel.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#45. For give the dry fool drink, then is the fool not dry. Bid the dishonest man mend himself. If he mend, he is no longer dishonest. If he cannot, let the botcher mend him. Anything
William Shakespeare
#46. The fool sees his own foolishness reflected in the wisdom of the teacher.'" This
Robert Kroese
#47. The fool has set in his heart that he can get more money through the tiring of his muscle and the starvation of his brain-but he can't.
William D. Hoard
#48. The wise learn from the mistakes of others, it's the fool that wants to make their own mistakes.
Tony Gaskins
#49. Oh, how often I had played the part of the fool, but I learned from it every time. This new pain would ultimately help me grow stronger; I knew that. But it ached so terribly, and I felt so very, very cold. In
Charlie N. Holmberg
#50. The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
Seneca The Younger
#51. "The fool, dwelling on the bank of the Ganga, digs a well for water!" Such are we! Living in the midst of God - we must go and make images.
Swami Vivekananda
#52. The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.
Marie De France
#53. In the abundance of water - the fool is thirsty
Bob Marley
#55. You see, said the wolf. He senses me. Not clearly, but he does. Hello, Fool. My ears itch. Outside the tent, the Fool reached down suddenly to scratch the wolf's ears.
Robin Hobb
#56. While the fool is enjoying the little he has, I will hunt for more. The way to hunt for more is to utilize your odd moments ... the man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life.
Arthur Brisbane
#57. It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#58. The fool I was who first laid eyes on her all those years ago did one thing right - he saw redemption within his reach, and he snatched it up for himself. And then he sabotaged it again, and again.
Laura Thalassa
#59. I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain.
Philip Massinger
#60. I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure."
Khalil Gibran
#61. To find his own salvation, a man must first find the fool locked inside himself and set it free.
Leonore Fleischer
#62. Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.
Mark Twain
#64. The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#65. To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.
Euripides
#66. There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not.
Otto Von Bismarck
#67. When enemies, the intellect and the heart only see one another as the hater and the fool.
Criss Jami
#68. So-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time. I have called this mental defect the Lucretius problem, after the Latin poetic philosopher who wrote that the fool believes that the tallest mountain in the world will be equal to the tallest one he has observed.
Anonymous
#69. Now, we know that life is only a stage to play the fool upon as long as the part amuses us. There was one more convenience lacking to modern comfort; a decent, easy way to quit that stage; the back stairs to liberty; or, as I said this moment, Death's private door.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#70. To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.
Jeffrey Fry
#71. Papa-Lo start thinking too deep and start thinking that he should be more than what he is. He's the worst kind of fool, the fool who start believing things can get better.
Marlon James
#72. Darwin's theory is as dead as he is. Everyone is surviving, fit or not. Years ago, any kid dumb enough to chase a shiny object down a well was dead, and out of the gene pool. Now they got the technology and medicine to save the fool so he can breed more open mouth breathers.
Lenny Bruce
#73. Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#74. When will we get done with the fool idea that the way to make a party grow is to scare away everybody who has an extra dollar in his pocket? God forbid that the Democratic Party should become a mere gathering of the unsuccessful!
John W. Davis
#75. Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.
William Shenstone
#76. The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious.
Gautama Buddha
#78. Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.
William Shakespeare
#79. No one would stand for it [being the fool in the media] in a minute if you took any other group -Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, women - but somehow it's okay to do that with hillbillies.
John Shelton Reed
#80. The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
William Blake
#81. It is delightful to play the fool.
Horace
#83. The fool who traveled is better off than the wise man who stayed home.
Rashi
#84. The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy.
William Blake
#85. Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#87. The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#88. A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
Anonymous
#89. I appear to have no time for blondes
except for Bugs Bunny, dressed up as a woman, as he seduces the fool Fudd. That is a woman I could be, definitely: a cartoon man-rabbit dressed up as a girl, trying to have sex with a stuttering bald man. I could definitely do that.
Caitlin Moran
#90. him - I was always happy to play the fool if I thought it might give him some pleasure -
Hanya Yanagihara
#91. Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.
Horace
#92. Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
Edward Young
#93. The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the fool, the way of someone who doesn't need to be noticed.
Frederick Lenz
#94. No matter how much the fool has been taught to road, exceeds the fool that's sits at home.
Vivek Sahni
#96. Who's the more foolish; the fool, or the fool who follows him?
George Lucas
#97. I too can play the madman, the fool, the hero; in short, any or everything to rescue her I love.
James Fenimore Cooper
#98. It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.
Joey Skaggs
#99. 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
