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Quotes About Fool

At one point during the war, the Germans built fake airfields out of wood to draw British bombers away from their real targets and to fool the allies into thinking they were strategically more powerful than they actually were. However, the British weren't fooled - and took the mickey out of the Germans by dropping wooden bombs on the decoys!
~ Jack Goldstein
ANY FOOL CAN GET INTO AN OCEAN BUT IT TAKES A GODDESS TO GET OUT OF ONE.
~ Jack Spicer
There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.
~ Jacob Braude
We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool.
~ Unknown
He who strives for wealth only to possess it is a heartless fool, and his fate will be that of Midas—he will starve in the midst of his treasures. But he who strives for wealth for the purpose of giving, he will discover that money is the fountain of happiness; and in his hands the dead metal is transformed into a living blessing.
~ Unknown
Recklessness is just stupidity pretending to be bravery. No one is fooled.
~ Unknown
Let them use at home economy where it is a virtue, but do not let them disgrace themselves abroad by narrowness....What a fool do I look like to be accoutered and stand here for 4 hours only to be spoken to by royalty.
~ Unknown
His name is fool and folly goes with him everywhere he goes" (1 Samuel 25:25, paraphrased).
~ Lysa TerKeurst
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
~ Unknown
I knew I was a fool. Even if he stayed past that spring to the next, such a man could never be happy closed up on my narrow shores.
~ Madeline Miller
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
~ John Donne
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
~ John Dryden
Both Dorothy and the Scarecrow had been greatly interested in the story of the Tin Woodman, and now they knew why he was so anxious to get a new heart. "All the same," said the Scarecrow, "I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one." "I shall take the heart," returned the Tin Woodman; "for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.
~ John Eldredge
From this skull-rock strange golden roots throw Ikons and incidents; the man in the mask Manipulates. I am the fool that falls And never learns to wait and watch, Icarus eternally damned, the dupe of time . . .
~ John Fowles
Bir budalan?n düÅŸtüÄŸü yüksekliÄŸin öfkesiyle ölçüldüÄŸünü biliyordum.
~ John Fowles
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool.
~ John Lennon
They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.
~ John Lennon
Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.
~ Jacob Braude
In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.
~ Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
Faith is the fool's excuse.
~ James Frey
In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish.The fool is cured by "reason, " "progress, " alcohol, work.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
She said she wanted a fairy tale life with me, so I treated her like a Princess. I wanted a real life with her, but she treated me like a Jester. Apparently, I WAS the Fool.
~ Unknown
You hurt me, more than I deserve. How can you be so cruel? I love you more than you deserve. Why am I such a fool?
~ Unknown