Fool Quotes

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
Benito Mussolini

Time, Best, Blood

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Henry Fielding

Honesty, Favor, Wit

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

Wise, Person, Different

I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.
Hugh Jackman

Love, Living, Kids

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.
Archibald Alexander

Nature, Makes, She

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Freedom, Down, Learned

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
J. B. Priestley

Proud, Making, Himself

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
Harold MacMillan

Young, Old, Said

A fool and his money are soon parted.
Thomas Tusser

Money, Soon, Parted

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.
Junior Seau

Leadership, Talk, Guys

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

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

Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.
Janice Dickinson

Liar, Camera, Hey

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
Pat Robertson

Politics, History, Human

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

Yourself, Write, Making

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.
Danny Kaye

Work, Born, Took

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

Rich, Themselves

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Publilius Syrus

Tongue, Hold, Pass

With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.
Hugh Jackman

Age, Yourself, Afraid

Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.
Earl Wilson

Money, Remember, Before

I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
Billy Joel

Care, Brings, Lesser

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

Future, Boring, Lives

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.
Joey Skaggs

Cannot, Thinks, Fooled

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

Character, Difficult, Comedy

Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.
Jack Nicholson

Love, Happy, Everybody

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
Saul Bellow

Men, Wise, Throw

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.
Thornton Wilder

Life, Alone, Live

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.
George Savile

Enough, Play, Sometimes

It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.
Phaedrus

Give, Others, Advice

The fool knows after he's suffered.
Hesiod

After, Knows, Suffered

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