Fool Quotes - Page 6

• A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

  Al Bernstein

  Money, Stupid, Publicity

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• Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.

  Henry Fielding

  Honesty, Rogues, Favour

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• If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

  Francois Rabelais

  Humor, Humility, Mirrors

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• 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.

  Francis Bacon

  Happiness, Wisdom, Humility

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• Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

  Douglas Bader

  Wise, Wisdom, Work

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• Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.

  Robert Benchley

  Drinking, People, Alcohol

  "The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom". Book by Herbert Victor Prochnow, 1958.

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• The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

  William Blake

  Wise, Wisdom, Stupid

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• If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

  Lord Byron

  Self, Envy, Doubt

  "Letters and Journals of Lord Byron". Book by Thomas Moore, Vol III, Chap. XVII, p. 208, 1830.

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• Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.

  Cleopatra

  Able, Hundred, Without You

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• Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.

  Anderson Cooper

  Liars, Lying, Littles

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• That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

  George Eliot

  Wise, Men, Wife

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.462, Delphi Classics

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• I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

  James A. Garfield

  Patriotic, Two, Political

  Letter to Burke Aaron Hinsdale on January 01, 1867. "The Life of Gen. James A. Garfield". Book by Jonas Mills Bundy, p. 77, 1880.

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• The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

  William Hazlitt

  Hate, Lost Friendship, World

  'The Plain Speaker' (1826) 'On the Pleasure of Hating'

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• Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

  William Hazlitt

  Education, Learning, May

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1092, Delphi Classics

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• I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.

  Billy Joel

  Care, Has Beens, Consequence

  Song: For The Longest Time, 1997

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• Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Military, Hero, Fighting

  1936 Ashley Wilkes. Gone with the Wind, ch.31.

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• I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Success, Wise, Philosophical

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• 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.

  George Jean Nathan

  Success, Work, Stress

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Stupidity, Criticism

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 390

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• 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.

  J. B. Priestley

  Inspirational, Men, Risk

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• If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.

  William Shatner

  Down And, Pants, Dignity

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• I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.

  Gwen Stefani

  Thinking, People, Able

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• I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

  Jonathan Swift

  Funny, Inspiration, Being In Love

  1738 Polite Conversation, dialogue 2.

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• Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Jealous, Thinking, Care

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• That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.

  Mike Tyson

  Guy, Fame, Broke

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