Fool Quotes

"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."
-Henry David Thoreau

"'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."
-Abraham Lincoln

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
-Abraham Lincoln

"A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her."
-George Bernard Shaw

"The fool wanders, a wise man travels."
-Dr. Thomas Fuller

"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."
-Carl Jung

"Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves."
-Carl Sagan

"The fool wonders, the wise man asks."
-Benjamin Disraeli

"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."
-Sir George Savile

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
-William Shakespeare

"The first priest was the first rogue who met the first fool."
-Carl Sagan

"I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool."
-William Shakespeare

"Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool."
-Seneca

"He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom."
-Benjamin Franklin

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do."
-Dale Carnegie

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain; but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving."
-Dale Carnegie

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

"The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you."
-Kin Hubbard

"A fool judges people by the presents they give him. "
-Chinese Proverb

"A wise man changes his mind, a fool never."
-Spanish Proverb

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."
-Chinese Proverb

"Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his."
-George S. Patton

"I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way."
-Danny Kaye

"If you follow a fool, you're a fool yourself."
-Jamaican Proverb

"I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing."
-Jonathan Swift

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

"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."
-Samuel Johnson

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