Fool Quotes

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends .

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

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.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.

You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time.

If the traveler cannot find master or friend to go with him, let him travel alone rather than with a fool for company.

Only the fools are certain and assured.

The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap.

Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough.

It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

He who despairs over an event is a coward. He who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.

He that is rich will not be called a fool.

Too many men are afraid of being fools.

Tis better to sit there and look the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.

The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.

Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.