It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
~By Barbara Smith ~
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.
~By Albert Ellis ~
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate.
~By George Murray ~
The fool knows after he's suffered.
~By Hesiod ~
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
~By Sacha Guitry ~
Words are the money of fools.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
~By Voltaire ~
Only a genius can play a fool.
~By Michael Rapaport ~
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
~By Samuel Butler ~
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
~By Louis L'Amour ~
I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.
~By Lucille Ball ~
It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
~By John Donne ~
We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
~By Afrika Bambaataa ~
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
~By Henry Fielding ~
You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.
~By Tom Wilkinson ~
The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.
~By Gloria Swanson ~
Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
~By Simone Weil ~
I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky.
~By Monica Lewinsky ~
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
~By George Jean Nathan ~
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
~By Francis Bacon ~
I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.
~By Leon Spinks ~
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
~By Joseph Addison ~
I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
~By Lord Acton ~
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
~By Otto von Bismarck ~
Silence is the virtue of fools.
~By Francis Bacon ~
No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.
~By Israel Zangwill ~
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
~By Thomas Dekker ~
I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.
~By Barry Goldwater ~
Johnny Cash was plenty good enough to fool his fans. They believed he felt it in his soul when he sang the Gospel while stoned on drugs.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.
~By John Ruskin ~
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
~By John Greenleaf Whittier ~
Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.
~By Jim Rohn ~
I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.
~By Dan Fogelberg ~
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
~By Epicurus ~
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
~By Josh Billings ~
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.
~By Lawrence Durrell ~
Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
~By Thornton Wilder ~
Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.
~By Rod Stewart ~
Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.
~By Adam Savage ~
The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.
~By Dusty Springfield ~
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
~By Anatole France ~
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
~By Alexander Pope ~
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
~By Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.
~By William John Wills ~
Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.
~By Caspar Weinberger ~
The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image all the time, it's whatever suits me at the moment.
~By Lydia Lunch ~
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
~By William Shakespeare ~
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
~By Don Van Vliet ~
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
~By Albert Einstein ~
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.
~By James W. Fulbright ~
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
~By Charles de Montesquieu ~
That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness, someone else always suffers for them.
~By Alfred Sutro ~
I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
~By Alexander Pope ~
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
~By Laurence J. Peter ~
I wasn't absolutely too sure where the Falklands was, and I didn't want to make a bloody fool of myself.
~By Denis Thatcher ~
So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.
~By Katherine Whitehorn ~
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
~By William Blake ~
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
~By Henry Fielding ~
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.
~By William Lamb Melbourne ~
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
~By Karl Kraus ~
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
~By William Makepeace Thackeray ~
A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
~By Minna Antrim ~
You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.
~By Nile Rodgers ~
I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.
~By Elizabeth Edwards ~
It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.
~By Stefan Zweig ~
You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
~By Bono ~
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
~By Demosthenes ~
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
~By Francois Rabelais ~
I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
~By Peter Ustinov ~
It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.
~By Antonio Davis ~
If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.
~By Joseph E. Levine ~
I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.
~By Richard Russo ~
Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.
~By Leon Kass ~
I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them.
~By Donna Douglas ~
When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.
~By Paul Stanley ~
So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.
~By Mika Waltari ~
The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And by fooling around like this as long as we have, we have wasted an opportunity that would have gotten rid of him.
~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~
Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising.
~By Leo Burnett ~
Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.
~By Michael Reed ~
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