A Fool Quotes

There is a certain animal vitality in most of us which carries us through any trouble but the absolutely overwhelming. Only a fool has no sorrow, only an idiot has no grief - but then only a fool and an idiot will let grief and sorrow ride him down into the grave.
- Edward Abbey

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the differance
- Mark Twain

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

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
- Mark Twain

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

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

Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are dead, or the soon to be dead, maybe. Fear teaches you caution, and respect for your enemy, and to avoid sharp edges used in anger. All good things in their place, believe me. Fear can bring you out alive, and that's the very best anyone can hope for from any fight. Every man who's worth a damn feels fear. It's the use you make of it that counts.
- Joe Abercrombie

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
- Heinrich Heine

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
- Lord Acton

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
- Joey Adams

Nobody wants to look like a fool. Nine times out of ten, that
reason alone keeps people from allowing themselves to believe.
- Darynda Jones

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
- Joseph Addison

There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.
- Mortimer Adler

Bless your soul,
You've got your head in the clouds,
You made a fool out of me,
And, boy, you're bringing me down,
You made my heart melt,
Yet I'm cold to the core,
But rumour has it
I'm the one you're leaving her for.
- Adele

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

It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought.
- Scipio Africanus

I made such a fool of myself," she lamented.
"Love does not make you a fool."
"He didn't love me back."
"That does not make you a fool, either."
"Just tell me ..." Her voice cracked. "When does it stop hurting?"
"Sometimes never.
- Mitch Albom

Nothing wrong with looking like a fool if what you are doing is far from foolish.
- Paulo Coelho

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.
- Archibald Alexander

He said there are thousands of Shadowhunters, but great love comes once in a lifetime if one is lucky, and one would be a fool to let it go.
- Cassandra Clare

My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.'
We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.
- Ernest Hemingway

How did a fool and his money get together in the first place?
- Steven Wright

Put even a fool in front of the window and you'll get a Spinoza; in the end life makes window watchers of us all
- Nicole Krauss

What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to avenge myself!
- Alexandre Dumas

The poet was a fool
who wanted no conflict
among us, gods
or people.
Harmony needs
low and high,
as progeny needs
man and woman.
- Heraclitus

Hasn't life taught me well enough? Love is not mine to find. I'm a fool. Damn it to hell.
- Debra Anastasia

Blake waited until she set her deep gray eyes on him. "He has no idea the beauty in front of him. He's a fool."
His words made her heart glow. She smiled and looked at her hands.
- Debra Anastasia

"that moment... that moment out there?" Blake pointed at the bed of army jacket, grass, and mint. "I've pictured it in my head for months. Months! I knew it would never really happen, but it kept me going. The beautiful, smiling girl would look at me like a man-a man worthy of her body, worthy of her kisses. Do you realize what a fool I am for hoping?"
- Debra Anastasia

Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.
- Harry Anderson

I am a fool for Christ...whose fool are you?
- Brother Andrew

I mean to have you, Rose, you and all of your thorns. I'm a disagreeable and stubborn bastard, but I'm not a fool. You didn't really expect me to pass you up, did you?
- Ilona Andrews

I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.
- Julie Andrews

Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be donethat's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.
- Piers Anthony

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
- Minna Antrim

I have never been
So insulted in all my life
I could swallow the seas
To wash down all this pride
First you run like a fool
Just to be at my side
And now you run like a fool
But you just run to hide.
- Fiona Apple

If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.
- Jeffrey Archer

Evidently you think I'm a fool who will easily succumb to flattery, or else your standards are quite low.
- Lisa Kleypas

Only a fool is never afraid, Frank. Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job's got to get done
- Meg Cabot

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
- Quintus Tullius Cicero

Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.
- Roone Arledge

If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.
- William Shatner

It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
- Paddy Ashdown

I go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable.
- Armand Assante

Now I can see how that can happen. You can fall in love with anybody--a fool, a criminal, a nothing. There are no good rules.
- Margaret Atwood

I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good.
I know too much to be good. I know myself.
I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly.
- Margaret Atwood

The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
- Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine.
- Jane Austen

She could not bear the thought. She simply could not bear the thought that she might somehow prove to her grandfather that her mother had indeed been a fool and her father had been a damned fool and that she was the damnedest fool of them all.
- Julia Quinn

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

She's way too old to be acting a fool because she has a screwed-up mommy." "Please. Just please with the blame-my-mommy-'cause-I'm-a-bitch crap,
- P C Cast

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

But I am still far from them, and my sense does not speak to their sense. To men I am something between a fool and a corpse.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

LORD GORING: (after a long pause) Nobody is incapable of doing a foolish thing. Nobody is incapable of doing a wrong thing.
- Oscar Wilde

Only a fool took a remote from a god.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.
- Lynda Barry

Nothing in nature now remains unblooded.
I used to hope that wine could bring me ease,
Could lull asleep my deeply gnawing mind.
I was a fool: the senses clear with wine.
I looked to Love to cure my old disease.
Love led me to a thicket of IVs
Where bristling needles thirsted for each vein.
- Charles Baudelaire

All the same," said the Scarecrow, "I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.
- L Frank Baum

Well, I can understand how you feel. You worked hard, studying for the spelling bee, and I suppose you feel you let everyone down, and you made a fool of yourself and everything. But did you notice something, Charlie Brown?"
"What's that?"
"The world didn't come to an end.
- Charles M Schulz

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

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
- Albert Camus

I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me.
- Albert Camus

I would find no value in the allegiance of a fool ready to give himself up to any old hag of Black Imagination who presented herself. I will accept your allegiance. For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man."
To be killed by you is to be desired more than a life excluded from your service."
(Redd and Sacrenoir)
- Frank Beddor

There's a coward and a fool, and both of them are you, My heart is cracked and broken, but yours is frozen through.
- Jay Bell

I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.
- L M Montgomery

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

He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the easy tranquil things of life. He had made mistakes, but he could overlook these. He had been a fool, but that could be forgiven. The time wasted--must be relinquished. What else could one do about it? Things were too complex, but they might be reduced to simplicity again. Recovery was possible.
- Saul Bellow

The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, "How would I do this if I were a fool?" Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you will never go wrong.
- Herman Wouk

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

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.
- Al Bernstein

The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.
- Alfred Bester

Ask a sage, he will explain.
Ask a fool, he will complain.
- Toba Beta

A fool tries to shut others' mouth
instead of listens to his own heart.
- Toba Beta

So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off - and if you don't, you're a fool. You're earning all this money to support children whom you then don't see, which is absurd.
- Paul Bettany

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
- Ambrose Bierce

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
- Ambrose Bierce

A wise man can be a fool in love.
- Chetan Bhagat

My friends say I'm a fool to think that you're the one for me, I guess I'm just a sucker for love. (love love) 'Cause honsetly the truth is that you know I'm never leaving, 'cause your my angel sent from above. (bove bove) Me and you can do no wrong. My money is yours give you a lil more 'cause I love ya, love ya. With me girl is where you belong...
-Love Me
- Justin Bieber

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
- Josh Billings

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
- Otto Von Bismarck

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
- William Blake

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

You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.
- Dave Blood

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

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

Your life might be easier if you were. A fool for love is happier than a Dog with a heart that's all leather.
- Tamora Pierce

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.
- William Shakespeare

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
- William Shakespeare

A fool and his words are soon parted
- William Shakespeare

TIMON
A fool of thee: depart.
APEMANTUS
I love thee better now than e'er I did.
TIMON
I hate thee worse.
- William Shakespeare

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a
beast!
- William Shakespeare

I see a woman may be made a fool,
If she had not a spirit to resist.
- William Shakespeare

When that I was and a little tiny boy,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day.
- William Shakespeare

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
- William Shakespeare

What a fool honesty is.
- William Shakespeare

Jaq: By my troth, I was seeking for a fool when I found you.
Orl: He is drowned in the brook, look but in and you shall see him.
Jaq: There I shall see mine own figure.
Orl: Which I take to be either a fool or a cipher.
- William Shakespeare

Why what a fool was I to this drunken monster for a God. - Caliban
- William Shakespeare

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

[A]ngling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
- Samuel Johnson

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.
- Ray Bradbury

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.
- Ray Bradbury

I can learn to pity a fool as I'm the worst of all
And I can't stop feeling sorry for myself
- Fall Out Boy

Those were the 'ifs' that kept me from making a fool of myself.
- Kami Garcia

...and I realized not without a sinking feeling that he was already completely in Feely's thrall, hanging on her every word like ball on a rubber string, nodding like a demented woodpecker, and grinning like a fool.
- Alan Bradley

Let your heart look
on white sea spray
and be lonely.
Love is a fool star.
You and a ring of stars
may mention my name
and then forget me.
Love is a fool star.
- Carl Sandburg

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.
- Carl Sandburg

Only a fool is not afraid.
- Madeleine L Engle

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
- Gerald Brenan

Don't confess to being a fool or a wise man; let others decide for you
- Nancy B Brewer

Don't take me for a fool!" Dee interrupted angrily, but then had to lean over the boat as another bout of nausea gripped him.
Virginia grinned and winked at Josh. "It's hard to sound masterful when you're throwing up, isn't it?"
"I hate you, Virginia Dare," Dee mumbled.
"I know you don't really mean that," she said lightly.
"I do," he croaked.
- Michael Scott

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
- Rudyard Kipling

Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.
- Heywood Broun

A fool shouts charge when he should retreat, A coward shouts retreat when he should charge and a wise man knows the difference. I charge.
- Tonny K Brown

Ah, but being in love made you mean and crazy. Love made you act like a fool even when you knew you were acting like a fool and couldn't help yourself from acting like a fool.
- Sandra Brown

It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.
- Nicholas Sparks

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

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
- Jean De La Fontaine

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
- Pearl S Buck

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.
- George Bernard Shaw

The Captain: A martyr, Lavinia, is a fool. Your death will prove nothing.
Lavinia: Then why kill me?
- George Bernard Shaw

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
- George Bernard Shaw

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
- George Bernard Shaw

A man learns to skate by staggering about making a fool of himself. Indeed, he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
- George Bernard Shaw

The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.
- Jimmy Buffett

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
- Robert Frost

Kids, she says. When they're little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you're the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it's just the opposite. After that, you're either a liar or a fool or a villain.
- Chuck Palahniuk

You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
- Sitting Bull

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
- Edward G Bulwerlytton

They's a heap more to God's will than death, disapoint-ment, and like thet. Hit's God's will for us to be good and do good, love one another, be forgivin'..." He laughed. "I reckon I ain't very forgivin', son. I can forgive a fool, but I ain't inner-rested in coddlin' hypocrites. Well anyhow, folks who think God's will jest has to do with sufferin' and dyin', they done missed the whole point.
- Olive Ann Burns

Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking about? If money is so evil, shouldn't it be, 'A wise man and his money are soon parted'? And another thing, how does a fool get money in the first place? I know some fools who have a lot of money, but they won't tell me how they got it, and I won't tell them.
- George Burns

Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and such are lovers wherever love is known.
- Edgar Rice Burroughs

The world runs on from one folly to another, and the man who soley from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I am just another blind man. I do not get the whole picture of what transpires in all places. I am blind and limited. I would be a fool to think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try tobe responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me.
- Jim Butcher

I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart.
- Jim Butcher

Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
- Octavia Butler

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

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
- Albert Einstein

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.
- Albert Einstein

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

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

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
- Voltaire

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
- Cynthia Heimel

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.
- Maria Callas

A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them.
- Gilbert K Chesterton

People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.
- Gilbert K Chesterton

The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.
- Orson Scott Card

But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.
- Donald Cargill

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
- Andrew Carnegie

It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on
- Benjamin Franklin

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
- Benjamin Franklin

Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.
- Ally Carter

That's good; don't deny it. Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar. In this profession, you can be one- sometimes the other. But never both.
- Ally Carter

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.
- Giacomo Casanova

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
- Giacomo Casanova

Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.
- Giacomo Casanova

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.
- Giacomo Casanova

Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.
- Margaret Cavendish

Don't hate me 'cause I'm booed a fool!
- Brian Celio

Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon.
- Michael Chabon

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
- Charlie Chaplin

In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
- Philip Stanhope

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
- Ilka Chase

Paul Edgecomb: What do you want me to do John? I'll do it. You want me to let you walk out of here and see how far you get?
John Coffey: Now why would you want to do a foolish thing like that?
Paul Edgecomb: When I die and I stand before God awaiting judgment and he asks me why I let one of HIS miracles die, what am I gonna say, that it was my job?
- Stephen King

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.
- Stephen King

A man who loves money is a bastard, someone to be hated. A man who can't take care of it is a fool. You don't hate him, but you got to pity him.
- Stephen King

He was not a practical joke nor was he a fool but he was determinedly original and had a vague and modest idea of himself as a legendary figure.
- John Cheever

A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in you it seems sweet, and gentle, and proper, and not as silly as it really is.
- Anton Chekhov

People will tell us that without the consolations of religion they would be intolerably unhappy. So far as this is true, it is a coward's argument. Nobody but a coward would consciously choose to live in a fool's paradise. When a man suspects his wife of infidelity, he is not thought the better of for shutting his eyes to the evidence. And I cannot see why ignoring evidence should be contemptible in one case and admirable in the other.
- Bertrand Russell

The wise man through an excess of wisdom is made a fool.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
- Charles De Secondat

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakesand only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.
- Tom Clancy

Like a fool, I fell in love with you,
Turned my whole world upside down

- Eric Clapton

Killy arched an eyebrow in disbelief. Don't be thinkin' you can deceive this old man. I've been makin' a fool of myself over women since before you were born.
- Pamela Clare

To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.
- Louis L Amour

It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.
- Joel Coen

I guess that's the danger with firstsyou lose all sense of proportion. So I made a fool of myself, even though I didn't
realize it at the time. I was so devoted to him.
- David Levithan

I liked this guy a lot. And I thought he liked me a lot, but in truth he didn't really like me at all. He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything-he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with flirts-you lose all sense of proportion. So I made a fool of myself, even though I didn't realize it at the time. I was so devoted to him.
- David Levithan

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
- Hunter S Thompson

All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.
- Hunter S Thompson

I'm sure I must have sounded like a fool and a borderline psychotic most of that year, when I talked to people who thought they knew who and where they were at the time... but looking back, I see that if I wasn't Right, at least I wasn't Wrong, and in that context I was forced to learn from my confusion... which took awhile, and there's still no proof that what I finally learned was Right, but there's not a hell of a lot of evidence to show that I'm Wrong either.
- Hunter S Thompson

Just because you're an angel doesn't mean you have to be a fool.
- Terry Pratchett

And if you don't think I can hold my own against all those eighteenth-century mortals you were out tagging, then you're a fool, Casanova."... "Oh, yes, I know all about you."
He went still. "What are you talking about?"
"I was alive back then. And all the Lore heard about the ruthless warlord brothers from Estonia. The general, the scholar, the enigma, and... the manwhore.
- Kresley Cole

Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool,
But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every fool is not a poet.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous [He is also a fool.].
- Robert A Heinlein

Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their "common sense" told them was impossible.
- Robert A Heinlein

He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him;
He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him
- Confucius

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
- Confucius

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
- William Congreve

I take it, no fool ever made a bargain for his soul with the devil; the fool is too much of a fool, or the devil too much of a devilI don't know which. Or you may be such a thunderingly exalted creature as to be altogether deaf and blind to anything but heavenly sights and sounds. Then the earth for you is only a standing placeand whether to be like this is your loss or your gain I won't pretend to say. But most of us are neither one nor the other.
- Joseph Conrad

I don't like anything that scares me, and I prefer to face it head on and get over it. Anyone who says they're not scared is a fool, a liar or both. I just don't want that fear in my stomach to be part of my life, so I work to eliminate it.
- Anderson Cooper

Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.
- Anderson Cooper

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of feeble minds
- Henry David Thoreau

The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must be waged with a savage joy in defeating the enemy, and it is that savage joy that inspires our bards to write their greatest songs about love and war.
- Bernard Cornwell

A fool must now and then be right, by chance.
- William Cowper

Not altogether a fool," said G., "but then he's a poet, which I take to be only one remove from a fool."
"True," said Dupin, after a long and thoughtful whiff from his meerschaum, "although I have been guilty of certain doggerel myself.
- Edgar Allan Poe

wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a far better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers.
- E E Cummings