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

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

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

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
James Thurber

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Charles de Montesquieu

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

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

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

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

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Samuel Johnson

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
Erica Jong

I'd be a fool to be in this for the money.
Benny Hinn

I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
Don Van Vliet

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
Walter Lippmann

The heart is forever making the head its fool.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.
Giacomo Casanova

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
Giacomo Casanova

I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.
Gwen Stefani