Top 475 Fool Quotes

There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool’s errand. Avoiding them is mandatory.

Being right is overrated! If someone is saying that they’re right about the future, that’s a claim only a fool would make.

People sometimes turn out to be almost the opposite of how they present. It isn’t because they’re trying to fool you or because they’re hypocrites. It’s because they badly want to be that thing, and so they’ll try to be it.

Even if you make a fool of yourself, its so important to go after what you want, or at least entertain your interests.

Some people feel that because you are black you will never be treated fairly, and that you should voice your opinions, be militant about them. I don’t feel this way. You can’t convince a fool against his will.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school.

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Don’t hate me ’cause I’m booed a fool!

When I was younger I would be taken for a ride alot, I would believe anybody at face value, I was quite a lallu actually everybody would fool me, exploit me for my work and talent and I would cry about it later.

I don’t really mind what people say about my love life or anything like that, but the one thing is that, yes, I do sing and write all my own music. That is something that I hold really dear. And yeah, I made a fool of myself in front of the world, but it was also great to pick myself back up and go on tour.

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.

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

I can’t write a book like ‘Lamb’ or ‘Fool’ every year. It just takes too much research and craft.

I’ve learned in the little bit of my life so far that you can’t fool people. And so I only tell people what I think about: my ambitions, my dreams, what inspires me.

I mean any fool can hurl themselves at a climb that is beyond their abilities to safely negotiate. You may get away with such an approach nine times, but the tenth time you don’t come back.

You can do a good job when you play it safe, but you can’t do a spectacular job. You have to risk it and be in danger of looking like an absolute fool.

Although I had a good job as an advertising manager for a shoe company in Boston, I really liked to fool around with comedy.

I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, I love to fool you a third time. And just when you think it’s all over, I have what I call that Carrie hand-out-of-the-grave moment. Just when you think it’s all over, I’m going to hit you with just one more. I can’t help myself.

I try not to kid myself. You know, I don’t mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.

Don’t be fool’s, don’t be complacent, and stop being apathetic.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.

And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he’s a fool.

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

I’m ashamed to say, I’ve done hideous pen portraits of people I don’t like in my novels. And they’ll say, ‘Oh, that person was hideous,’ and I’m nodding, and I’m thinking, ‘It’s you, you fool!’

I can fool people that I was educated.

The thing that we like about our show is that it’s our take on a kind of format. It’s a hidden camera comedy show where we don’t even call it a ‘prank show’ because we’re made to fool each other and our friends.

Don’t let the good looks and the playboy image fool you. I’m very serious.

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we could fool around, and drama was it because we’d do improvs, beating each other up. They left a year later, and I stayed in and got a knack for it, and enjoyed the whole process.

I always love the court fool in Shakespearean times, in Henry VIII’s time. The fool can say all kinds of stuff that the other people can’t say, so I’m hoping I might take that role.

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.

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.

To marry a fool is to be no fool.

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

To obfuscate the reconstruction of the effect – when a magician is fooled by another magician doing magic. In my career that’s not been the major passion, but it’s been the passion of a number of my mentors. The crowning achievement for them would be to create magic good enough to fool other magicians.

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

My career is a burden, but I can’t just fade out like a pathetic sore loser. More often than not, I’m just making a fool of myself for the hundredth time, and that wasn’t part of the plan, initially. I’d be happier not having any kind of public presence whatsoever and just hiding behind the sleeves of the CD.

You have to muster a certain amount of belief that you’re not making a mistake and you’re not a fool. And this means you have to have faith.

The Grand Bargain is a Grand Lie. Anyone who argues for it is either a fool or a charlatan. If President Obama was anything but the establishment hack that he is, he would never consider it.

I’ve got to be aware of what’s going on. I can’t drink too much or make a fool of myself.

Stop letting Grey’s Anatomy’ fool you into doing pre-med.

I do still get extremely nervous before speeches. My biggest fear is that I’ll be standing there in front of hundreds of people and be incapable of talking. I’m afraid that I’ll make a complete fool of myself and be unable to go on.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.

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

If research can help us discover cures for diseases, it surely can improve a football team. Whether it’s data analysis or biomechanics, it can give you an edge – and I’d be a fool if I didn’t want that edge.

When emotion rules, every fool thinks that he is holy.

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

Don’t let the American accent fool you. I am British.

I’ve always been genuinely interested in the spirit world. I’ve seen things I will never talk about because I’d be a fool to. You can’t lay out that world in words.

And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often – very last paragraph sometimes – I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that’s why we travel, often. And yet we all know, too, that the change cannot be guaranteed. Travel is a fool’s paradise, Emerson reminded us, if we think that we can find anything far off that we could not find at home.

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

Only a fool would think the league was already won after just ten games.

People who think they’re making a fool of themselves on the dance floor usually do.

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.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

A naked woman in heels is a beautiful thing. A naked man in shoes looks like a fool.

Groves is a fool. Groves is a fake. I will never let him belittle me like he’s done with Carl Froch.