Fool quotes

Discover a captivating collection of thought-provoking and humorous quotes pertaining to being a Fool. Explore this category and embrace your inner jesters with our carefully curated selection.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

- Charles de Montesquieu

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

- Billy Joel

I don't fool with a lot of things that I can't have fun with. There's not much reward in that.

- Levon Helm

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

- William Shakespeare

I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

- Alan Coren

The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.

- Thomas Shadwell

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

- Robert E. Sherwood

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

- Roald Dahl

I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.

- David Gerrold

To marry a fool is to be no fool.

- Moliere

One fool at least in every married couple.

- Henry Fielding

I wasn't absolutely too sure where the Falklands was, and I didn't want to make a bloody fool of myself.

- Denis Thatcher

But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.

- Donald Cargill

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

- Joseph Roux

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

- John Dryden

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

- Jeremy Taylor

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

- Charles de Secondat

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

- Henry David Thoreau

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.

- Lord Melbourne

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

- John Churton Collins

The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.

- Richard Steele

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

- Mae West

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

- Jerome Lawrence

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

- Levon Helm

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

- Samuel Butler

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

- J. B. Priestley

You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.

- Nile Rodgers

The fool inherits, but the wise must get.

- William Cartwright

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

- Epicurus

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

- Carl Jung