Fool Quotes

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

Doubt, Thought, Speak

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholom Aleichem

Life, Wise, Game

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare

Wise, Himself, Knows

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

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain

Doubt, Thought, Silent

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Wise, Himself, Flatters

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

Wise, Learn, Question

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields

Try, Again, Succeed

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
Benjamin Franklin

Complain, Fools, Criticize

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain

Doubt, Keep, Open

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Robert Frost

Mother, Woman, Him

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare

Foolish, Witty, Wit

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
Bruce Lee

Enough, Temper, Soon

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
Bob Marley

Music, Facts, Maybe

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard

Wisdom, Five, Limit

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
Bruce Lee

Off, Idea, Glory

A fool and his money are soon elected.
Will Rogers

Money, Soon, Elected

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Laurence J. Peter

Yourself, Job, Friend

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
William Shakespeare

Experience, Travel, Sad

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw

Education, Art, Science

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

Cannot, Keep, Lose

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

Good, Wise, May

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
Paulo Coelho

Love, Wise, Understand

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

Men, Truth, Sometimes

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau

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

Courage, Failure, Yourself

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

He who hesitates is a damned fool.
Mae West

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
Chanakya

Sleep, Small, Child

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Albert Camus

Hope, Human, Coward

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