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

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
John Churton Collins

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

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

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.
Margaret Mitchell

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
James A. Garfield

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.
Israel Zangwill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
Diogenes of Sinope

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
William Makepeace Thackeray

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
Billy Joel

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