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Quotes About Fool

I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
~ Ben Jonson
How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?
~ Bob Dylan
Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I gripped the stapler even harder and felt like a fool planning to battle a crazy man with a stapler that even, I suddenly remembered, contained no staples. Well, strike that line of defense.
~ Charlaine Harris
My father used to say that if a man fools you once, he's a jerk. If he fools you twice, you're a jerk. Only he didn't use the word "jerk."
~ Ellen Goodman
How is the anxious soul of man befool'd in his desire, That thinks an hectic fever may be cool'd in flames of fire?
~ Francis Quarles
Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.
~ George Bernard Shaw
For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think himself a respectable man.
~ George MacDonald
A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . .
~ George Meredith
Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)
~ George R. R. Martin
Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove.
~ George R. R. Martin
Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself.
~ Marjorie Bowen
You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.
~ Mark Twain
Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.
~ Publilius Syrus
I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.
~ Robert Harris
Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.
~ Horace
It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
You do know it cost money to put a t-shirt on your back? You do know it cost money have a house? You do know it cost money to eat? Get money, don't let these people fool you.
~ DJ Khaled