Fool Quotes - page 3

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. (Ambrose Bierce)
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense. View quote
Joseph Addison
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool. View quote
John Dryden
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose. View quote
Jim Elliot
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. View quote
Dale Carnegie
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions. View quote
Wilson Mizner
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. View quote
James Huneker
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. View quote
Joseph Roux
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country. (Will Durant)
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. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
One fool at least in every married couple. View quote
Henry Fielding
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool. View quote
Richard Feynman
The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool. View quote
Ray Bradbury
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. View quote
William Blake
The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all men are just as easy to fool. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it. View quote
H. L. Mencken
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. View quote
Helen Rowland
Look down at me and you see a fool; look up at me and you see a god; look straight at me and you see yourself. View quote
Charles Manson
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing. (Jean de La Fontaine)
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. View quote
Lord Byron
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool. View quote
Molière
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. View quote
William Shakespeare
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. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne