Top 475 Fool Quotes

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau
I’ve always been a coffee-lovin’ fool, from the time I was a kid.
Joey Kramer
If people know too much about you, I think you become a little less interesting as an actor – your job is to fool people.
Jonny Lee Miller
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.
Whitney Houston
A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
Saul Bellow
I had to fool the world into accepting me. I didn’t seem to fit the mould of my idols.
Kayvan Novak
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
William Blake
It’s impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can’t fool the fans.
Marv Albert
If you can’t make 40% on your money in Russia, you’re a fool.
Simon Reuben
Allah is with people who show patience. If you are down in the dumps, Allah will help you if you have belief. But this is a personal thing between you and him. You can’t fool Allah.
Mohammad Azharuddin
I was a go-go dancer, too. I called myself ‘Grace Mendoza’ to fool my parents.
Grace Jones
I’ve always made a fool out of myself.
Dirk Nowitzki
I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can’t accommodate metamorphoses.
Jack Kemp
Something I took away from Kurt Angle’s Hall of Fame speech was never be afraid to make a fool of yourself, and don’t take yourself too seriously. I really let that sink in and ran with it.
Carmella
I am a performer. I go on stage and make a fool of myself.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Only a fool manages himself.
Mathew Knowles
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
Gerald Brenan
Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.
Donald Tusk
We should not fool ourselves. We are not one of the world’s top teams any more.
Franz Beckenbauer
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
J. William Fulbright
Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.
Sophocles
I think time and time again, in reality, psychological

I think time and time again, in reality, psychological notions and economic notions interplay, and the man who doesn’t understand both is a damned fool.
Charlie Munger
I’m not afraid to go completely over the top. A lot of people are scared to seem silly or to embarrass themselves, and I really don’t have that at all – I don’t mind making a fool of myself. I like to just have fun and really go for it.
Becki Newton
What one fool can understand, another can.
Richard P. Feynman
If you have a relative who’s lost interest in everything and doesn’t get out of bed, who doesn’t care for things they used to, can’t imagine anything that would give them any pleasure, don’t fool around with it; get therapy, get help, get medication if that’s right for you, or talk therapy, or something.
Dick Cavett
I am no fool.
Demetrius Andrade
If you don’t have reservations, you’re a fool. You can’t go blind into something.
David Droga
I would be a fool to tell you that there was no fixing. You ask if wrestling is for real? Well, I think my own body answers that question.
Bruno Sammartino
Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It’s a face that is searching and open and kind. It’s a face that a certain type of woman might want to fool because, in its intensely old-fashioned kindness, the face says, I love you. Fool me.
Wesley Morris
One who cannot live in harmony with others is regarded as an ignorant fool, even if he happens to be very learned in various matters.
Thiruvalluvar
To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
Anne Rice
I would never rule out any opportunity completely. I’d be a fool to do that.
Manushi Chhillar
A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.
Christopher Hitchens
You never really see me acting a fool on TV.
Vinny Guadagnino
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I’ve been very much intrigued by and impressed with women. But I’ve never been intimidated. Even if I make a fool of myself, it’s better to have tried.
Kellan Lutz
You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.
Eden Phillpotts
It happened with me in the past that I was not well trained for a reason, like an injury, and I started talking a lot to fool myself, to show everyone that I’m fine, but I was not.
Fabricio Werdum
A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
Elizabeth I
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Thomas Fuller
The ‘good’ mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the ‘bad’ mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.
Rachel Cusk
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
Samuel Butler
You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!
Mr. T
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
You can’t fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you’re not getting paid for that song that’s being traded back and forth among millions of people on the Internet, you have to think like a businessperson.
Ann Powers
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I’ve worn costumes all my life. I’m a theatre actress, you know. That’s what I do for a living. I dress up, I wear makeup, I make a fool of myself.
Caroline Quentin
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
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Al Bernstein
There is a mammalian side to all of us; on occasion, it rears its head, snarls, makes a mess, acts the fool, howls at the moon, gives or gets a black eye.
Jonathan Miles
You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
Bono
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
Jonathan Swift
Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
Anatole France
He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
William Drummond
No one but a fool is always right.
David Hare
I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they’re uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong.
Chris Bell
A fellow who is always declaring he’s no fool usually has his suspicions.
Wilson Mizner
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master’s ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
Walter Lippmann
You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it’s not the same when you’ve got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.
Chili Davis
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian