Playing The Fool Quotes:

There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.

- Jacob Braude

topic: Fool, Beats, Playing The Fool, Old Proverb

I am comfortable playing the fool, I think.

- Ben Barnes

source: "Ben Barnes Talks KILLING BONO and THE SEVENTH SON". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 1, 2011.

topic: Thinking, Fool, Playing The Fool

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

- Alexander Pope

source: An Essay on Criticism l. 625 (1711)

topic: Wisdom, Fear, Angel, Foolish Man, Fools Day

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Witty, Fool, Foolish, Wittiest, Fools And Foolishness

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

- William Blake

topic: Wise, Photography, Teaching, Foolish Man, Withered Leaves

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

- Sholom Aleichem

topic: Life, Wise, Dream, Love Is Life, Life Dream

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

- Mary Wortley Montagu

source: Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.111

topic: Wise, Thinking, People, Playing The Fool

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Crazy, Men, Mad, Playing The Fool

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

- Virginia Foxx

topic: Silly, Fool Me Once, Conservative, Stupid Conservative, Pranks

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

topic: Giving, World, Fool, Playing The Fool

A fool and his money are soon elected.

- Will Rogers

topic: Funny, Sarcastic, Fool, Spanish And English, Money Is The Root Of All Evil

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

- Baltasar Gracian

topic: Motivational, Wise, Wisdom, Playing The Fool

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

- William Edward Hickson

topic: Inspirational, Success, Trying, Try Again, About Success

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

- William Shakespeare

source: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 115

topic: Summer, Dream, Stupid People, Mid Summer Nights Dream, Midsummer Night's Dream

There is no fool like an old fool.

- Betty White

topic: Fool, Old Proverb, Playing The Fool

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

- William Congreve

source: John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, John Brown (1796). “British Theatre: Bonduca”

topic: Funny, Men, Play, Playing The Fool

All's well that ends well.

- John Heywood

source: John Heywood (1867). “The proverbs and epigrams of John Heywood: with an app. of variations”, p.21

topic: Wisdom, Finishing, Ends, Life Wisdom, Spanish Proverb

If at first you don't succeed, try management.

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Success, Perseverance, Persistence, Try Again, About Success

A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Money, Italian, Taxes Funny, Spanish And English, Money Is The Root Of All Evil

All is well that ends well

- Emily Rodda

source: Emily Rodda (2008). “The Key to Rondo”, p.332, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Ends, Wells, Spanish Proverb, Meaning Well, Merchant Of Venice

A fool and his money are soon partying.

- Steven Wright

topic: Funny, Money, Party, Spanish And English, Money Is The Root Of All Evil

How tragic that the very thing that could set us free-playing the fool-is the thing we will not do. When we're afraid to be fools, we end up being afraid to be anything.

- Mike Mason

source: Mike Mason (2011). “Practicing the Presence of People: How We Learn to Love”, p.101, WaterBrook

topic: Humility, Fool, Ends, Playing The Fool

A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

- Thomas Tusser

topic: Fool, Good Husband, Hundred, Good Money, Spanish And English

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.

- Harold MacMillan

topic: Growing Up, Fool, Firsts, Old Proverb, Playing The Fool

A fool and his money are soon married.

- Carolyn Wells

topic: Money, Fool, Married, Spanish And English, Money Is The Root Of All Evil

If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

- William Feather

topic: Success, Perseverance, Hard Work, Try Again, Spanish And English