Philip Roth Quotes

Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly.

One foole makes a hundred.

There's no exception to the rule, yes, everybody's somebody's fool.

There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

It is bad enough to see young fools, but worse to see old fools.

And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.

You may be an idiot but I don't think you're a fool.

Fools are not mad folks.

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

There is no fool to the old fool.

A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.

The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which are so.

Don't suffer fools or you'll become one.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool

There is no fool like an old fool.

The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.

A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.

Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.

No creature smarts so little as a fool.

It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.

VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.

If there is any truth to the old proverb that "one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client," the Court now bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself.