Top 100 You Can Fool Quotes
#1. What I hate most in life are people who are not really the peach of the day but who want to be young and sexy. You can fool nobody. There is a moment when you have to accept that somebody else is younger and fresher and hotter. Life is not a beauty contest.
Karl Lagerfeld
#2. They say you can fool some of the people all of the time. Accordingly, I think we should concentrate on this group initially. We can move on to the people you can only fool some of the time at a later date if we deem it necessary.
Stephen Mitchell
#3. You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.
Howard Thurston
#4. You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time.
Aesop
#5. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people, some of the time, but you can fool yourself anytime you need to badly enough.
Hilari Bell
#6. Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.
Richard Branson
#7. You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
Fables for Our Time, Moral of "The Owl Who Was God" (1940)
James Thurber
#8. Well, he thought, you can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be President of the United States, and on that useless profundity, Milligan himself pedalled on, himself, himself.
Spike Milligan
#9. And you can fool yourself if you're raised in New York. Think that somehow your birthplace alone makes you cosmopolitan. But it isn't true. We're rubes too.
Victor LaValle
#10. Animals are ever so psychic. There are some people who just can't come in here. The cats particularly seem to know. You can fool everybody, but landy M deary-me, you can't fool a cat. They seem to know who's not right, if you know what I mean.
Dewitt Bodeen
#11. You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.
Jodi Picoult
#12. You can fool too many people, too much of the time.
James Thurber
#13. You can fool people in public, but you will never fool truth even in private. You can fool yourself a thousand times, but you cannot fool God even once.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#14. You can fool some people some times but you cant fool all the people all the time
Bob Marley
#15. You can fool a lot of the people some of the time, and a few of the people most of the time, but the only person you can fool all of the time is yourself.
Bruce T. Clark
#17. You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.
Whitney Houston
#18. Being a comedian is like being a con man. You have to make 'em like you before you can fool 'em.
Flip Wilson
#19. A smile is the best way to deal with difficult situations. Even if it's a fake one. Used properly, you can fool anyone with them.
Sai
#20. And then she got a bad, bad feeling because she realized she had been wrong.
You can fool a person.
You can fool a dog.
You can fool a cat or a horse or a teacher or a friend.
But you cannot ever fool a heart.
Barbara O'Connor
#21. You can fool history sometimes, but you can't fool the memory of your intimates.
Barbara Kingsolver
#22. You can fool me once, you can even fool me twice, you can even fool me thrice. But you can never fool me four
Melanie
#23. You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul.
Mary Oliver
#24. You can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
Will Durant
#25. You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.
David Allen
#26. You can fool some of the people some of the time
and that's enough to make a decent living.
W.C. Fields
#27. You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.
Joseph E. Levine
#28. Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn it very quickly, you can fool somebody into thinking you're a great magician.
David Copperfield
#29. You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.
John Prine
#30. Not one song on the charts is being played naturally. But when you go see someone live it's special. Even though you can fool people, I know there are people out there who still play along to tapes.
Roger Glover
#31. You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln
#32. In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second.
Gloria Swanson
#33. You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.
George W. Bush
#34. You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.
Nile Rodgers
#35. Baseball is like this. Have one good year and you can fool them for five more, because for five more
years they expect you to have another good one.
Frankie Frisch
#36. Remember...You can fool all but the universe!
Timothy Pina
#37. Bill Gates says, 'Wait till you can see what your computer can become.' But it's you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work-not the damn fool computer.
Kurt Vonnegut
#38. You can't make silly people stay away from you; all you can do is staying away from them.
M.F. Moonzajer
#39. She shrugged. "I fell. I'm a clumsy fool." "I know how you feel. I'm such a fool I knocked half my teeth out and hacked my leg to useless pulp. Look at me now, a cripple. It's amazing where a little foolishness can take you, if it goes unchecked.
Joe Abercrombie
#40. If you can't hide what you are going to do, do it so everybody thinks you are a fool.
Robert Jordan
#41. If you think that you can stop crime by catching us, locking us up, punishing us by brutal treatment, hanging or electrocuting us, sterilizing or castrating us, then you are a fool for thinking that way. That only makes bad matters worse.
Carl Panzram
#42. Reminded myself: the ones you don't like are a bonus. They can't fool you as easy as the ones you do.
Tana French
#43. You might have been able to fool people the first time, or something, but you really can't make a successful sequel today unless people really, really liked the predecessor.
Neal H. Moritz
#45. You can't fool the mirror-what you see is what you are.
Malcolm Forbes
#46. I like a puzzle, as you know. So does every scholar worth his salt. It's the reward of the business, to look history in the eye and say, 'I know who you are. You can't fool me'.
Elizabeth Kostova
#47. 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
#48. Any fool can love somebody who's perfect, somebody who does everything right. But that doesn't stretch your soul. Your soul only gets stretched when you can still love somebody after they've hurt you.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#49. I'm tired of saying, "How wonderful you are!" to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it.
Margaret Mitchell
#50. You stiff-necked fool," he muttered, "too proud to listen. Can you eat pride, Stark? Will honor shield your children?
George R R Martin
#51. I can be your quintessential good guy princess. I'll treat you right; I'll be there for you whenever you need me, even when you think you don't... but don't for one second let that fool you. I'm gonna own you Lena, body, mind, heart and soul. You'll be mine, totally, completely and irrefutably mine.
G.L. Chapple
#52. If you can't fool yourself," he said, "how can you expect to fool anybody else?
Janet Evanovich
#53. As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.
Gelsey Kirkland
#55. Prideful fool. It hurt his feelings that he couldn't make my crazy go away. You know how men are. Always trying to fix things can't be fixed.
Ken Wheaton
#56. As long as you're willing to be called a fool, you can create anything, do anything, be anything.
Anna Olson
#57. You can put off your dreams, your desires, your careers, your farms. You can avoid your responsibilities, obligations, promises, and sovereign rights. But any person who wants to make music, and doesn't, is a goddamned fool.
Jenna Woginrich
#58. When investing, I'm not against risk. If you take no risk you must expect a low return. Just don't let anyone fool you into thinking you can get a high return with low risk.
Paul Clitheroe
#59. Guns are like men - only useful for a little while. They can go off at a moment's notice when you don't want them to and they make a lot of damn fool noise doing it.
R.S. Belcher
#60. Don't let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you; kisses can be deadly.
Me
#61. Any damn fool can build homes. What counts is how many you can sell for how little.
William Levitt
#62. Now I can see how that can happen. You can fall in love with anybody
a fool, a criminal, a nothing. There are no good rules.
Margaret Atwood
#63. 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
#64. You need one person who knows you... Just one person you can't fool, even when you fool yourself.
Rebecca Scherm
#65. When someone's acting for a scene, they can fool the camera. But in everyday life, unless you're watching and censoring yourself every minute, or spending all your time in the company of ladies, what you feel is bound to show in your eyes.
Cesar Romero
#66. It's amazing how powerful a smile can be, even a forced one. It's all it takes to fool people into believing you're not falling apart inside.
Nicola Haken
#67. When you make a mistake. You can do a little song and dance, put on a little show and have everyone laugh it off.
Or you can own it, and next time show everyone how great you are. While silencing your critiques.
Personally speaking... I don't help no one make a fool out of you.
Vincent Edwards
#68. I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.
George Bernard Shaw
#69. Perhaps I myself am a pompous and conceited old fool. And perhaps if these fools I complain of were French or Dutch or German I would not mind so much, because then I could say 'What else can you expect?' and feel superior. It is because they are men of my own race that I would have them all good.
M.M. Kaye
#70. You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.
Eden Phillpotts
#71. I used to love you I still do So Selfish I love the old you The you that didnt shoot drugs ... The you that didnt get beat on by men You laugh in my face and call me a fool But its true I still love you Sometimes,I can see the old you When your eyes flash When you almost look alive
Henry Rollins
#72. Vampires often turn on those who trust them. We don't have human values, you know." "A lot of humans turn on those who trust them," I pointed out. I can be practical. "I'm not a total fool.
Charlaine Harris
#73. While you can't hold on to everything forever, you're a fool if you sell back your college books at semester's end: have you learned nothing of this life?
Ander Monson
#74. She standing there looking me straight in the eye. She look tired and her jaws full of air.
I say it's cause I'm a fool, I say. I say it cause I'm jealous of you. I say it cause you do what I can't.
What that? she say.
Fight. I say.
Alice Walker
#75. How old must you be before words can no longer fool you?
Marty Rubin
#76. Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.
Junior Seau
#77. You can't fool Mother Nature, and you can't fool market forces (at least not for long)
Richard McKenzie
#78. You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.
Seth Godin
#79. I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them.
Donna Douglas
#80. That's good; don't deny it. Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar. In this profession, you can be one- sometimes the other. But never both.
Ally Carter
#81. Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can't do you know harm to feel your own pain.
John Lennon
#82. Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.
Tom Robbins
#83. I can't decide if you're a fool, Vin thought toward it, or if you simply exist in a way that makes you incapable of considering some things.
Brandon Sanderson
#84. Ninety percent of the time the very sight of you makes me want to commit murder. I think about carving the skin from your body and hanging it out as a warning to every other fool who thinks he can stand in my way."
"What about the other ten?
Nora Sakavic
#85. I can't believe I agreed to this shit. One minute I feel like some lovesick fool; then I remember that kiss, the way you ran to me at the airport, and I can barely breathe.
Joey W. Hill
#86. Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.
Harry Anderson
#87. You might have a hundred ways to fool yourself, but I don't bother with that shit. I know better. You're it for me, and what we just did in that bed together proved it. I'm smitten. Gone. And I can't stand that you don't trust me.
Shayla Black
#88. When you start to become a movie star it's easy to believe that you are Superman. That can fool you. That's why I prefer not to pay much attention to fame.
Benicio Del Toro
#89. That can go in the cabinet, and so can this One Ring. No, don't put it on, you fool! It's dangerous!
Diana Wynne Jones
#90. I've got cheekier with age. You can get away with murder when you're 71 years old. People just think I'm a silly old fool.
Bernard Manning
#91. Can you add a quote from yourself? That would be pointless, what sort of fool would do that?
RJ Barker
#92. Smile while you can,' Hettie Close had scrawled in ink almost as faded as the print above it. 'Smile like the skull you'll be, you fool, before you're worse than bones.
Ramsey Campbell
#93. Killy arched an eyebrow in disbelief. Don't be thinkin' you can deceive this old man. I've been makin' a fool of myself over women since before you were born.
Pamela Clare
#94. You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.
Charles Bukowski
#95. Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay
Harlan Coben
#96. You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for that song that's being traded back and forth among millions of people on the Internet, you have to think like a businessperson.
Ann Powers
#97. Marietta is good for you, Gabriel. I quite like her. Don't be a fool and let her go."
"I can do nothing but let her go, John. Sometimes love can only be given by setting someone free.
Anne Mallory
#98. Uh-huh. You can't fool me. The kind of compassion you have is like a diamond - won under tremendous pressure. Well, whatever fire forged you, you are special. You're a jewel." Michael
Eli Easton
#99. There is a certain elegance in wasting time. Any fool can waste money, but when you waste time you waste what is priceless.
W. Somerset Maugham
#100. In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.
Alain De Botton
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