Fool Quotes - page 4

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
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
The fool wonders, the wise man asks. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave. View quote
Plutarch
Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it. View quote
Frank Wedekind
I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others. View quote
John Woolman
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. (John McCain)
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world. View quote
Thomas Shadwell
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. View quote
Harold Macmillan
Busy old fool, unruly Sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run? View quote
John Donne
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. View quote
Cicero
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. View quote
Montesquieu
Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, 'Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.' View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all. View quote
Dashiell Hammett
CIRCUS, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance. (Michael Korda)
I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection. View quote
Billy Joel
There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again. View quote
George W. Bush
The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise. View quote
John Dryden
A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool. View quote
George Washington
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