Quotes About Fool

In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.

Being a fool for God was not merely alright but liberating.

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.

He who claims to be sure of something for which there is no evidence is a fool, and he who acts on the basis of what cannot be proved is an imposter.

PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.

Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.

Any fool can start a religion. And many do.

To say "He was a young fool, and now he's an old fool" is to make a distinction without a difference.

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

With slouch and swing around the ringWe trod the Fools' Parade!We did not care: we knew we wereThe Devils' Own Brigade:And shaven head and feet of leadMake a merry masquerade.

Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.

A Genius always admires the choices of the most Confident Fool!

If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool.

Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader.

This blue one's a smart'un. See how he puffs out his gut so you won't cinch him tight? And then the saddle falls off later and you with it." Cloyd laughed. "Better not let him hear you . . ." "He thinks he's fooled us," Walter whispered. He turned away as if he was done, then winked and quickly cinched in a few more notches. "I wasn't born yesterday," he said.

It is better for some one to think you're a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Harmony of colouring is destructive of artÖ it is like the smile of a fool.

Every man plays the fool once in his lif marry is playing the fool all one's life, but to marry is to playing the fool all one's life long.

A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.

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.

Anyone who has passed through 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.

I am safe—I am safe—yes—if I be not fool enough to make open confession!" —EDGAR ALLAN POE, "THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE