Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
~By Samuel Butler ~
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 ~
To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
~By Anne Rice ~
In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.
~By Alain de Botton ~
I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.
~By Leon Spinks ~
Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.
~By William Drummond ~
Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
~By J. G. Ballard ~
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
~By Charles Lamb ~
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly.
~By George Raft ~
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 ~
Fortune, that favors fools.
~By Ben Jonson ~
Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
~By John Dryden ~
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
~By Thomas Fuller ~
Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
~By Walt Whitman ~
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
~By William Osler ~
As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about them. They want to appear healthier than they are, smarter, more honest and so forth.
~By Richard Posner ~
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 ~
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.
~By Earl Wilson ~
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
~By Sacha Guitry ~
The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.
~By Gloria Swanson ~
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
~By Albert Camus ~
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
~By Heinrich Heine ~
When someone's acting for a scene, they can fool the camera. But in everyday life, unless you're watching and censoring yourself every minute, or spending all your time in the company of ladies, what you feel is bound to show in your eyes.
~By Cesar Romero ~
I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.
~By Katherine Whitehorn ~
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
~By Alexander Pope ~
The first rule to living in America is 'Stop tap dancing, you fool!'.
~By Ryan Stiles ~
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
~By Roald Dahl ~
I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.
~By David Gerrold ~
The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.
~By C. S. Forester ~
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 ~
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
~By George Eliot ~
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
Don't hate me 'cause I'm booed a fool!
~By Brian Celio ~
The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
The fool inherits, but the wise must get.
~By William Cartwright ~
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
~By William Blake ~
I am the fool, and must be the sufferer, if it be not of God.
~By Joanna Southcott ~
It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
~By Paddy Ashdown ~
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
~By George Chapman ~
There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.
~By George Galloway ~
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
~By Judith Viorst ~
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
~By Jane Austen ~
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.
~By Nile Rodgers ~
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
~By Samuel Pepys ~
A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
~By Saul Bellow ~
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
~By Francis Bacon ~
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
~By Moliere ~
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
~By Henry Ellis ~
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
~By Voltaire ~
We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.
~By Hugh Leonard ~
It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.
~By Phaedrus ~
We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
~By Paracelsus ~
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
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 ~
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 ~
I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.
~By Dominic Monaghan ~
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.
~By Stefan Zweig ~
To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
~By Charles Maurice de Talleyrand ~
One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.
~By J. B. Morton ~
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?
~By Alec Guinness ~
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
~By Edward Young ~
In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.
~By Thomas Shepard ~
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 ~
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
~By Akhenaton ~
Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
~By May Sarton ~
It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
~By Horace ~
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 ~
It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
~By Helen Rowland ~
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
~By William Blake ~
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 ~
It takes a fool to test how deep the water is with both feet.
~By J. Wallace Day ~
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 ~
Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.
~By Samuel Pepys ~
Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.
~By John McCarthy ~
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me.
~By Sun Myung Moon ~
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
~By Helen Rowland ~
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
~By Lord Byron ~
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
~By Samuel Butler ~
People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card.
~By Frank Robinson ~
Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
~By Orson Welles ~
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 ~
It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
~By Neil Gaiman ~
I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.
~By Kirk Cameron ~
Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.
~By Holbrook Jackson ~
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
~By Zhuangzi ~
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
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 ~
It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
~By James Taylor ~
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