Fool Quotes

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
Charles Caleb Colton

Wise, Mistakes, Himself

A naked woman in heels is a beautiful thing. A naked man in shoes looks like a fool.
Christian Louboutin

Beautiful, Woman, Shoes

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.
Paul McCartney

Time, Guitar, Used

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

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Bryant H. McGill

Greatest, May, Remember

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
Elizabeth I

Past, Late, Peril

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
William Congreve

Hard, Find, Young

Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.
Anderson Cooper

Time, Liar, Afraid

Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.
Kenneth Lay

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

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
Charles de Montesquieu

Wise, Succeed, Seem

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, Anyone

A fool is wise in his eyes.
King Solomon

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

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.
William Drummond

Cannot, Reason, Slave

If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.
William Shatner

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.
Christopher Hitchens

Enough, Read, President

I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.
Joan Rivers

Country, Child, Third

A fool must now and then be right, by chance.
William Cowper

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Truth, Cannot, Study

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Time, Money, Everybody

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
George Byron

Wisdom, Envy, Certainty

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Akhenaton

Wisdom, Wise, Ignorance

A fool and her money are soon courted.
Helen Rowland

Money, Her, Soon

Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and kind. It's a face that a certain type of woman might want to fool because, in its intensely old-fashioned kindness, the face says, I love you. Fool me.
Wesley Morris

Love, Kindness, Woman

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
Neil Gaiman

Else, Speak, Truths

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
John Donne

Busy, Through, Why

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

Freedom, Person, Become

You've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it goin' on.
Tyra Banks

Learn, Accept, Goin

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Human, Makes, Exiles

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