Fools Quotations

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?

Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.

My father believed, like Pericles, that a man's genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.

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

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Ukippers are the kinds of fools who haven't noticed they're sleep-walking towards fascism. Many UKIP candidates are of the age when their parents fought in the Second World War.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Those who realize their folly are not true fools

He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?

If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.

One fool at least in every married couple.

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

The music of ABBA is not that happy. It might sound happy, in some strange way, but deep within, it's not happy music. It has that Nordic melancholic feeling to it. What fools you is the girls' voices. You know, I do think that is one of the secrets about ABBA. Even when we were really quite sad, we always sounded jubilant.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

I never, ever, saw the evil Steve Jobs. He was always the most well-mannered and respectful guy I knew. And we got to be pretty good friends. He didn't suffer fools gladly. I guess he didn't think I was a fool.

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

I can imagine no sweeter way to end one's life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad race for money, place and power - far from the demands of business - out of the dusty highway where fools struggle and strive for the hollow praise of other fools.

'Only Fools and Horses' was just one of those shows that could keep on going and going, that excited me. 'Hartbeat with Tony Hart' and 'Rolf's Cartoon Club' were my huge favourites, though. I used to love drawing and always sent work in to the show.

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Only a fool would subject themselves to questioning by seven investigators as some sort of publicity stunt.

No one should fool anyone that this is going to happen overnight ... because the health system is so complex.

No one's quite sure if he's a genius or a fool, the difference sometimes seems so close. But I think he knows exactly what he's doing.

RHADOMANCER, n. One who uses a divining-rod in prospecting for precious metals in the pocket of a fool.

Nothing is 100 percent fool proof. We've tested it in simulations, but until you get the real thing you don't know for sure.

Next week we will be millionaires (Only Fools and Horses)

New homes sales sprang back to life like a zombie in a cheap horror flick. And like that zombie, housing really is dead. Don't let all that twitching fool you.

Revenge is sweet, sweeter than life itself - so say fools

I don't know him, but ... he'd definitely make our team a lot better. I'd be a fool not to say that. A guy like that would make everybody around him better.

Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools

I don't know why he ran from the car, I know we can all speculate . . . but he was a fool, he's quit the captaincy, he's paid a price . . . . He's a fool because it's not a good image for a captain of a football club. But he's been dealt with by the club under the code of conduct.

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it's lovely to be silly at the right moment

Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: it's good to be silly at the right moment. (Odes, bk. 4, no. 12, l. 27)

As a wise man once said, "April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads."

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

KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a ""crowned head,"" although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.A king, in times long, long gone by, Said to his lazy jester:""If I were you and you were I My moments merrily would fly -- Nor care nor grief to pester.""""The reason, Sire, that you would thrive,"" The fool said --""if you'll hear it -- Is that of all the fools alive Who own you for their sovereign, I've The most forgiving spirit."" --Oogum Bem

I wouldn't play it any differently if I had to do it again, ... I'm sure we looked like fools down there, but if I had to do it all over again, I would have aimed at the same target.

He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.

I'd be a fool if I said I didn't look at the clock every couple of seconds.

I'd be a fool if I said I wasn't looking at the clock every couple of seconds. But we played really hard. I was just excited to be in this position. Obviously it hurts to lose, we're all sore losers. But they have five NBA players on their team, they were bigger than us at every spot.

I'd be a fool to say I wasn't looking at the clock every couple seconds.

I'd be a fool to say 'No, we weren't happy' to beat somebody we've lost to seven straight times since I've been here.

I'd be a fool to say we don't miss them.

But a person's a fool if they think you can take a serious punt on when that exactly will happen.

I have a lot of plans for the year and I don't want to jeopardize those by doing something foolish in one day of play.

He who knows he who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child, teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep, wake him. He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise, follow him.

He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child, teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep, wake him. He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise, follow him.

I'm a success inasmuch that I enjoy my life, which is an enormous blessing and that doesn't depend on commercial success (though I wouldn't be such a fool as to deny that it helps).

His private affair is a private matter. Clearly he looks a fool but our job in opposition is to call him to account on his ministerial record.

There is no fool who has not his own kind of sense

There is no Heaven, there is no Hell; These are the dreams of baby minds; Tools of the wily Fetisheer, To fright the fools his cunning blinds

He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.

He doesn't fool around out there, does he? He gets the ball and throws it. This guy learned how to put different pressure points on the ball to make the ball move. This guy is the best I've ever seen.

I was a fool three years ago. One is always a fool three years ago.

Some of the songs on the album I was with and some I was not. We had a song on the album with rap on it, and it sure wasn't any of us singing. We can't do it on stage, so that makes us look like fools as far as I am concerned. I usually say, 'Don't ever put out nothing that you can't sing on stage.' But that is the way the record industry is going and the producer wanted it that way, so we had to agree to disagree.

Start with GOD-the first step in learning is bowing down to GOD; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.

Penalties set up a touchdown for them and took away scoring opportunities from us. We had some foolish penalties and some guys got one who hadn't had one in two years.

I might be a different kind of fool, but I ain't gonna be the same fool twice.

I think it would be foolish to think we are the only life forms in this universe.

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree

It is impossible for the fools to tread the path of learned ones.

It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.

I tell you, as one who has studied the whole situation, I don't think Hitler is a fool - he is not going to challenge the British Empire

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

I think to ignore that piece of work is foolish on any number of levels, ... I think it's a tragic mistake for anybody who really wants to think seriously about those issues - about the issues of race relations in the United States - and how we as a society deal with any kind of contentious issue. ...If you're concerned about race relations issues in the United States today to ignore 'Birth of a Nation' is to put aside a tool that can tell you a lot.

I thought the game was over. I'm a complete idiot. I was jumping up and down like a fool out there. I thought Gee's basket won the game for us.

True fops help nature's work, and go to school - to file and finish God Almighty's fool

To limit the press is to insult a nation ; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves

Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.

I would never sing in public. Because I've got a horrible voice. It just sounds bad. I mean, Tea claims to like to hear me sing, and I think it's because I enjoy it so much. We sing in the car ... And she air-drums. This is why we have tinted windows. A lot of people think it's because we don't want people to see us and follow us home, but it's really because we're making fools of ourselves.

Waist-deep in the Big Muddy, and the big fool said to push on.

You listen to everybody, but Shawn played the game. You'd be a fool if you didn't listen to him.

We're all kind of God's fools. The process is going to make fools out of all of us, I think: fools in the best sense, in the sense of struggling and innocent and vulnerable.

Who can explain it? Who can tell you why? Fools give you reasons; Wise men never try

Who is this Pat Condell? He's my friend. He likes his beer; He adores England and respects North America. He can be crude or extremely elegant, and best of all, he despises dogma and the leeches who spout it and the fools who follow the likes of Jones, Falwell, Kennedy, Swaggart, Copeland, Bakker and Hinn.

We had to win or we would have headed home looking like fools.

We had to win. We couldn't go back to Boston looking like a bunch of fools.

Well, as I characterize most of them, they're all gimmicks, gimmicks to fool the taxpaying public that they're going to get some kind of tax relief.

That was a thing we were getting away from when the equity markets were on a tear. Everybody thought you were a fool to get into anything else.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

This problem is exploding in the face of the government, ... They have politicized it so much they are making fools of themselves. There's the image of Paris burning and that is very, very bad.