The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
Rudyard Kipling

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

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

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.
Al Pacino

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

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

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

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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.
H. L. Mencken

That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.
Mike Tyson

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
Marquis de Sade

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
Andrew Carnegie

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

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

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

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