Fooling Quotes

No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

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

Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself.

I've been fooling the public for years and I'm really good at it.

Magicians are the most honest people in the world; they tell you they're gonna fool you, and then they do it.

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling.

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.

I prefer to be hated than be false and fool people.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

I told the truth, I didn't come to fool you

It's not about fooling somebody, it's actually giving somebody a measure of their own belief: how much you want to be fooled. That's why we pay to go to magic shows and things like that.

At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.

The world cannot be successfully fooled for all time.

I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.

If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.

You can fool the people once, twice, but you can't fool them all the time. You should tell them honestly what you can do for them.

My father used to say that if a man fools you once, he's a jerk. If he fools you twice, you're a jerk. Only he didn't use the word "jerk."

God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

Certainly American foreign policy in Greece is not fooling the Greeks … American foreign policy in Greece is not fooling the Russians… American foreign policy in Greece is not fooling American reporters. This leaves only the American people to be fooled …. I think it is time that the nonsense of fooling the Americans ceased.

Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.

We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.