Quotes About Fool

He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom." - Benjamin Franklin.

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.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool, an optimist must know what a sad place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

tip-of-your-nose delusions can fool anyone, even the best and the brightest—perhaps especially the best and the brightest.

Deduct the carrots from your pay, you worthless, swampy fool. from Cavern

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.

You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

The greater fool is actually an economic term. It's a patsy. For the rest of us to profit, we need a greater fool— someone who will buy long and sell short. Most people spend their life trying not to be the greater fool; we toss him the hot potato, we dive for his seat when the music stops. The greater fool is someone with the perfect blend of self-delusion and ego to think that he can succeed where others have failed. This whole country was made by greater fools.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

Better remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

L'impressione che mi resi conto di aver fatto sulla bella mi fece diventare, esattamente come lei desiderava, simile ad uno scemo

And that is why, when he finally did come across the street, I lit my cigarette with my lighter - not to make him feel like a fool who had fallen for a trick, but rather because he had said, 'you had better luck with matches,' when in fact I had not. It was not the matches that brought him across the street. It was the matches that kept him on the bench.

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

Americans get fooled because we think we're trying to help the peasants down there in El Salvador, even though we're propping up that oppressive government, among the most brutal and militaristic in the world.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

What kind of fool had he been, to throw away romance untried?

He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.

An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.

To sit in judgment on what people do is a fool's game.