I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.
James Blunt

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

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

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
Peter Ustinov

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

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

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
John Dryden

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
John Dryden

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
John Dryden

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.
Robertson Davies

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

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

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
Baron de Montesquieu

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.
Francois Rabelais

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

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
Franz Schubert

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Huneker

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

No one but a fool is always right.
David Hare

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
Charles Caleb Colton