Fool Quotes

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

Failure, Destiny, Crime

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
Thomas Fuller

Wise, Hell, Paradise

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

Husband, Her, Girlfriend

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Euripides

Sense, Talk, Foolish

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
Billy Joel

Thinking, Wish, Rejection

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
Helen Rowland

Woman, Him, Son

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

Art, Wisdom, Wise

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
Louis L'Amour

Wise, Win, Plan

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
Andre Maurois

Enemy, Woman, Might

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
Benjamin Disraeli

Wise, Wonders, Asks

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Randall Terry

Once, Shame, Twice

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
William Blake

Wise, Become, Folly

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

Great, Yourself, May

If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.
William Shatner

Yourself, Down, Taking

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson

Love, Wisdom, Wise

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

Travel, Wise, Makes

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.
Barry Goldwater

Business, Around, Else

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
Peter Ustinov

Sad, After, Place

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
Miguel de Unamuno

Good, Talking, Knows

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
Francis Bacon

Devil, Neighbors, Discovered

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
George Eliot

Wise, Wife, Him

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.
George W. Bush

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Huneker

Wisdom, Direction, Step

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

Truth, Lie, Sense

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

Happiness, Wisdom, Greatest

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
George Jean Nathan

Life, Labor, Wasted

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
Epicurus

Wise, Prosperity, Misfortune

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Successful, Ugly, Handsome

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
Andre Maurois

Happiness, Compassion, Solid

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
Agatha Christie

Love, Woman, Her

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