Top 1200 Fool Quotes & Sayings

I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.

I think when you say to someone You are fool not to believe in evolution or a fool to believe the universe is 6000 years old. I think that gets translated as You are a fool to think that your daughter who died in a car accident is really in heaven with god.

A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

The reactionary suicide is ‘wise,’ and the revolutionary suicide is a ‘fool,’ a fool for the revolution in the way Paul meant when he spoke of being a ‘fool for Christ,’ That foolishness can move mountains of oppression; it is our great leap and our commitment to the dead and the unborn.

Perhaps there is a reason that there is no fool piece on the chessboard. What action, a fool? What strategy, a fool? What use, a fool? Ah, but a fool resides in a deck of cards, a joker, sometimes two. Of no worth, of course. No real purpose. The appearance of a trump, but none of the power: Simply an instrument of chance. Only a dealer may give value to the joker.

Isn't the act of calling everyone a fool left and right the indication of a true fool?

Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.

I love you too, sweet sister. But you're a fool. A beautiful golden fool.

He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

When you're arguing with a fool, you're the fool for even going back and forth.

So I guess I'm a fool, I'm a fool in love. But I'm willing to stay here, and bask in the glory of his heart.

You can fool me once, you can even fool me twice, you can even fool me thrice. But you can never fool me four

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

You should invest in a business that even a fool can run, because someday a fool will.

We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.

It is easy to fool yourself. It is possible to fool the people you work for. It is more difficult to fool the people you work with. But it is almost impossible to fool the people who work under you.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!

Fool you once, you are forgiven. Fool you twice, you're just a fool.

A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest, A motley fool! a miserable world! As I do live by food, I met a fool Who laid him down and basked him in the sun And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, and yet a motley fool.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

In the Tarot deck, the Fool is depicted as a young man about to step off a cliff into empty air. Most people assume that the Fool will fall. But we don't see it happen, and a Fool doesn't know that he's subject to the laws of gravity. Against all odds, he just might float.

Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He who does so is a fool; and a grave fool is, perhaps, more injurious than a light fool.

In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.

The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.

My Father always told me that a fool at 40 is a fool for life.

Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.

If I am a fool then it is no misfortune, for then only one more fool will wander this Earth. Amongst the millions of mentally deranged it would barely be noticed. But what if I am not a fool, and that science itself has erred? Then the tragedy is incalculable!

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.

Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself.

I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.

There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.

You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.

[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.

You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.

The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.

I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and... deceiving a fool is an exploit worthy of an intelligent man. What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself when I am in their company.

If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.

I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.

If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.

You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.

If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not.

April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.

Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art." Feste: "But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool.

You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.

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.

Never, ladies, marry a fool. Any husband rather than a fool. With some other husband you may be unhappy, but with a fool you will be miserable.

Donald Trump is a fool, but he is not free to be a dangerous fool in Britian.

Hoaxes are nothing new. News media isn't hard to fool. It's fun to fool and people like to mess with people. It all goes to show you that we're not all that hard to fool. I think we should just accept that and trust people anyway.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.