Fool Quotes

It takes one 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

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
Horace

Makes, She, Fortune

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

Wisdom, Greatest, Self

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
William Hazlitt

Travel, Wise, Makes

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Age, Before, Drinks

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

Nature, Happy, Learned

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
Moliere

Learned, Ignorant

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

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian

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

Nothing, Friend, Everyone

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.
Kin Hubbard

Everything, Getting, Either

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness, Wisdom, Greatest

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Thomas Fuller

Wise, Travels, Wanders

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

Cannot, Reason, Dare

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
Carl Sandburg

Happy, Often, Kinds

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
Franklin P. Adams

Time, Experience, Country

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
Jonathan Swift

Wonder, Kissing, Invented

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
Anatole France

Wise, Himself, Knows

Yes, I now that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them.
Knute Rockne

Strong, Enemy, Enough

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Change, Nature, Men

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
William Hazlitt

Love, Friendship, Hate

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
Bono

Equality, Justice, Happen

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

Laugh, Young, Older

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Joseph Roux

Hand, Fine, Diamond

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Charles Caleb Colton

Best, Greatest, May

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
Wilson Mizner

Fellow, Declaring, Suspicions

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
William Hazlitt

Education, May, Made

Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.
Sophocles

Love, Whoever, Boxer

To marry a fool is to be no fool.
Moliere

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