Fool Quotations

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

Dad wouldn't let me fool with his guitar much, because I'm left-handed, and I'd pick it up upside down. But I remember learning to sing 'Paper Doll,' the Mills Brothers song - this was during the war - and I remember my dad taking me down to one of those little record booths where you could make spoken letters to send home.

Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.

Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.

The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.

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.

As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters.

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.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

Rush Limbaugh is good for the party. Drive it all the way down, take it down as low as it can go, make complete fools of themselves, because it's always darkest before the dawn, and then maybe a moderate can come in and rescue them.

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.

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.

Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods.

For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.

The fool inherits, but the wise must get.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

I like attractive people who aren't so terribly aware that they are attractive... people who aren't afraid to roll on the floor and make fools out of themselves.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

You'd be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is not a statement against people in the money business, just a fact.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.

The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.

I'm not scared to look like a complete fool in front of people. It's just not one of my insecurities.

Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.

With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.

Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.

I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.

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.

That fame monster's a fool, man. It really is.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

In Shakespeare's world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and truthful, or is it a demon, tempting young Hamlet into murderous sin? Is Juliet dead or merely sleeping? Does Lear really stand at the edge of a great cliff? Or has the Fool deceived him to save his life?

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

It would be lovely if it was all Right vs. Wrong, Good overcomes Evil - I think most Americans, going about their daily lives, fool themselves into thinking that that's how our little world works, but it just isn't so.

You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.

Making a fool out of yourself and putting it on the Internet is one of the best bonding experiences you could have.

I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!

Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work

I don't fool with a lot of things that I can't have fun with. There's not much reward in that.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass

I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.

The constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.

I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.

I do read all my work aloud as I'm working - this has made it a little hard to adjust to my husband's retirement. I can shout the shouty parts if I'm alone in the house, but of course, I feel a fool if someone is there to hear me.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

A fool and his words are soon parted.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.

I'm a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.