Fool Quotes

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

~ Ambrose Bierce

A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

~ William Cowper

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.

~ Bobby Darin

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

~ Franklin Pierce Adams

I do still get extremely nervous before speeches. My biggest fear is that I'll be standing there in front of hundreds of people and be incapable of talking. I'm afraid that I'll make a complete fool of myself and be unable to go on.

~ Marcus Buckingham

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

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.

~ Nicolaus Copernicus

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

~ Marilyn Monroe

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

~ Otto Von Bismarck

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

~ Samuel Butler

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

~ E. F. Schumacher

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

~ Dean Koontz

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

~ Samuel Butler

I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

~ Maya Angelou

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

~ William Hazlitt

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

~ Thomas Fuller

We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all know, too, that the change cannot be guaranteed. Travel is a fool's paradise, Emerson reminded us, if we think that we can find anything far off that we could not find at home.

~ Pico Iyer

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

~ Eazy-E

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.

~ Dalton Trumbo

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

~ Frank Wedekind

In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

~ Philip Stanhope

A fool and his money are soon elected.

~ Will Rogers

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

~ Baltasar Gracián

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.

~ Joey Adams

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

~ Orson Welles

A fool and his money are soon parted.

~ Thomas Tusser

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.

~ Earl Wilson

A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

~ Stanley Weiser

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

~ Al Bernstein

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

~ Bob Marley

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

~ Leon Spinks

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

~ Jim Elliot

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

~ Lord Byron

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

~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

~ Charles Caleb Colton

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

~ Erica Jong