In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.
Alain de Botton

The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
Luc de Clapier

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Baltasar Gracian

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

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

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

A fool is wise in his eyes.
King Solomon

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Miguel de Cervantes

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

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
Anne Rice

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

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

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
Lord Acton

I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.
Julie Andrews

Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.
Cleopatra

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

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
Pearl S. Buck

You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights.
Bob Barker