fool quotes

“Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.”

— Agatha Christie

“It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.”

— Og Mandino

“Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.”

— Og Mandino

“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.”

— Dale Carnegie

“To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.”

— Buddha

“Too often they don't realize what they have until it's gone. ...they're too stubborn to say, 'Sorry, I was wrong' they hurt the ones closest to their hearts, and we let the most foolish things tear us apart”

— Marilyn Monroe

“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. ”

— Abraham Lincoln

“It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.”

— Horace

“It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.”

— Horace

“While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one. ”

— Horace

“Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.”

— Horace

“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. ”

— Horace

“The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable. ”

— Horace

“Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment. ”

— Horace

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”

— Euripides

“Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society. ”

— Honore de Balzac

“For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth. ”

— Honore de Balzac

“To marry a fool is to be no fool.”

— Moliere

“The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. ”

— Lord Byron

“Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. ”

— Lord Byron

“If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The heart is forever making the head its fool.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish. ”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The intellect is always fooled by the heart.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld