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Quotes About Fool

What do you take me for, an idiot
~ Charles de Gaulle
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
~ Charles de Secondat
Clara, are you a perfect fool?
~ Charles Dickens
He who trusts in his own heart is a fool" (28:26).
~ Charles F. Stanley
Although I myself, due doubtless to defective skill, have to work pretty hard, I do not believe in too hard work... 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
A promise is a comfort for a fool.
~ Proverb
Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
~ Greg King
Satan, whom Paul labeled as "the god of this evil world," is so clever that he has fooled many people into thinking that he doesn't even exist—while in reality he controls their very lives.
~ Greg Laurie
Who would you rather have? A leader who is unthinkingly loyal to opinions you disagree with? Or one who is insincere about opinions you share? A fool or a hypocrite? Too often, it seems, these are our only options. I don't know the answer.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.
~ Groucho Marx
Hunger makes a fool of a man.
~ H. G. Wells
He who represents himself has a fool for a client." ~ Abraham Lincoln
~ James Hart
You can't argue with a fool, It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Take a fool's advice. All is not well.
~ James Joyce
He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.
~ James Patterson
I mumbled, "Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it." Roddy said, "What's that?" "Henry David Thoreau." It was a quotation I used to live by, thanks to my philosophy degree.
~ James Patterson
Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is a right of which the Soviet Union in this case has taken full advantage.
~ Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase.
~ George Farquhar
War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.
~ H. L. Mencken
The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, "Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long."
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
There's nothing typical about Genuine Love. To be loved authentically is to be blessed beyond measure. Only a fool would take advantage of something that so many people yearn for.
~ Stephanie Lahart
It's ok to be a fool once or twice but never let it be a third time. Be smart and pretend to be a fool and at the end of the hunt make sure you're the one that has the gun.
~ Surgeo Bell
You're a fool, " Quinhelm accused. "Any man who would allow himself to be bewitched by a woman needs a good dunking in a cold barrel of water." (Quinhelm, the wizard, from BRIGGEN)
~ Ann B. Keller