Fool Quotes

Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.

~ Oscar Wilde

I was a fool, alone, preparing to do what every fool did at such times—I was going to a bar to drink myself smart.

~ Genna Rulon

He who asks a question is a fool for 5 minutes, He who never asks is a fool forever.

~ Anonymous

You think that's the solution to everything, don't you, Bane? Drinking and dancing and making love... but I tell you this, something is coming, and we'd be fools to ignore it.When have I ever claimed not to be a fool?

~ Cassandra Clare

They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.

~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

He gave a final shake of his coat. I go to the hunt!

~ Robin Hobb

And so the Wolf of the West rose from the stone! And so he will rise again if ever the folk of the Six Duchies call to him in need.

~ Robin Hobb

To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!

~ Vera Nazarian

I am not a conqueror. I am nothing like you.

~ Faith Erin Hicks

Good madonna, give me leave toprove you a fool.

~ William Shakespeare

Half is better than none unless it be of a wit.

~ Susan Lendroth

The best way to stay safe is, let them think your insane.

~ Anthony Liccione

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

~ Nile Rodgers

Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.

~ Roone Arledge

Don't let expertise fool you into seeing false boundaries or underestimating those with wild dreams.

~ Naveen Jain

I've learned in the little bit of my life so far that you can't fool people. And so I only tell people what I think about: my ambitions, my dreams, what inspires me.

~ Benjamin Clementine

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

~ Lynda Barry

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

~ John Mccain

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

~ Charlie Chaplin

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

~ Ambrose Bierce

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.

~ Theodore Isaac Rubin

I like to talk. That's why I can't karaoke in a private room. Those types of shenanigans are only good in a public space. I got to say, though, with smartphones and instant upload of everything, our generation and definitely the next generation coming up, it's going to be hard to act a fool.

~ Liza Lapira

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

~ Joseph Roux

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

~ Alexander Pope

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.

~ Alan Alda

Allah is with people who show patience. If you are down in the dumps, Allah will help you if you have belief. But this is a personal thing between you and him. You can't fool Allah.

~ Mohammad Azharuddin

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

~ Bono

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

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

~ Thomas Dekker

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

~ André Maurois

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

~ Francis Bacon

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

~ André Maurois

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

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

~ Bruce Lee

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.

~ Don Everly

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

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.

~ Anderson Cooper

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

I've learned that while I'd be a fool not to stay open to the advice and experiences of the smart, amazing people in my life, I also need to listen to what I have to say.

~ Alicia Keys