These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.
Dylan Thomas

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

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

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

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

I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!
Norman Rockwell

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 first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard P. Feynman

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
John McCain

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

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
Dean Koontz

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
William Penn

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
Roald Dahl

You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
Sitting Bull

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.
Angelina Jolie

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Otto von Bismarck

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

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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.
Joseph Addison

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
George Santayana