Fool famous quotes
05-20-2025
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Only he who bestirs himself can advance spiritually. The fool who uses extraneous aids for this, in the form of the ready-made opinions of others, only walks his path as if on crutches, while ignoring his own healthy limbs.
-- Abd-ru-shin -
A Fool can become a Genius when he understands he is a Fool but. A Genius can become a Fool when he understands he is a Genius.
-- Abdul Kalam -
He who represents himself has a fool for a client
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Others have been made fools of by the girls; but, this can never be with truth said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance,made a fool of myself.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.
-- Adam Savage -
If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.
-- Adrian Lyne -
The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.
-- Agatha Christie -
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
-- Agatha Christie -
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
-- Al Bernstein -
A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.
-- Al Bernstein -
It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.
-- Al Pacino -
Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.
-- Alan Brennert -
At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!"
-- Alexander MacLaren -
Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
-- Alexander Pope -
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
-- Alexander Pope -
Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
-- Alexander Pope -
To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
-- Alexander Pope -
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
-- Alexander Pope -
The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap.
-- Alexander Suvorov -
If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo
-- Alexandre Dumas -
What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to avenge myself!
-- Alexandre Dumas -
The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.
-- Alfred Bester -
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
-- Alice James -
Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool.
-- Alma Guillermoprieto -
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The biggest fool is one who minds the business of others rather than minding his very own
-- Amit Abraham -
I can really laugh at myself and make a fool out of myself.
-- Amy Ryan -
Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.
-- Amy Vanderbilt -
One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.
-- Andre Malraux -
As long as you're willing to be called a fool, you can create anything, do anything, be anything.
-- Anna Olson -
What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.
-- Anne Bronte -
Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.
-- Antonio Machado -
Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.
-- Archibald Alexander -
A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.
-- Aristotle -
While the fool is enjoying the little he has, I will hunt for more. The way to hunt for more is to utilize your odd moments...the man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life.
-- Arthur Brisbane -
There are no fools so troublesome as those of the mind
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two
-- Arthur M. Wellington -
Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is....never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.
-- Assata Shakur -
Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.
-- Athol Fugard -
Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?
-- Avicenna -
Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.
-- Ayn Rand -
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
He who laughs at everything is as big a fool as he who weeps at everything.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.
-- Barack Obama -
Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.
-- Barbara Sher -
I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing.
-- Barry White -
But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.
-- Basil Bunting -
The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
-- Bayard Taylor -
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
-- Ben Jonson -
He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Most fools think they are only ignorant.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
-- Bernard Baruch -
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.
-- Bertrand Russell -
There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.
-- Bessie Smith -
But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.
-- Bill Ayers -
Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away... a bigger fool than when he came to it.
-- Bill Vaughan -
How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
-- Blaise Pascal -
I like attractive people who aren't so terribly aware that they are attractive... people who aren't afraid to roll on the floor and make fools out of themselves.
-- Bob Fosse -
A fool and his money are soon parted. It takes creative tax laws for the rest.
-- Bob Thaves -
The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
-- Booth Tarkington -
Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.
-- Brandon Mull -
It says in the Bible that if you argue with a fool, you become one. That’s why I don’t talk to Fred Durst!
-- Brian Molko -
He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.
-- Brigham Young -
That's the spirit, one part brave, three parts fool.
-- Brom -
My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them.
-- Bruce Barton -
I'm the kind of person, I think a lot about everything. Nothin' I can do about it. It's like, I'm a thinkin' fool. That's a big part of me.
-- Bruce Springsteen -
Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
The biggest fool to hit the big time and all I've got to do is act naturally.
-- Buck Owens -
Franchot Tone is nuttier than a fruitcake, so don't let the genteel frosting fool you.
-- Burgess Meredith -
The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.
-- C. S. Forester
