In this post, you will find great Fool Quotes from famous people, such as Samuel Butler, Hugh Laurie, Charles Caleb Colton, LaVar Ball, William Blake. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
LeBron is not a fool.
If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.
I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!
I have a past of making a fool of myself.
Making a fool out of yourself and putting it on the Internet is one of the best bonding experiences you could have.
I don’t really like the gym. I like to fool my body. I run around the beach and then there’s scaffolding so I can just do different pulls-ups there.
You’ve got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that’s got it goin’ on.
You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
Only a fool manages himself.
Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
I’m not scared to look like a complete fool in front of people. It’s just not one of my insecurities.
I pity the fool who just gives up.
I can fool people that I was educated.
One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife‘s ear.
I think time and time again, in reality, psychological notions and economic notions interplay, and the man who doesn’t understand both is a damned fool.
Being funny is my biggest differentiator, and I think I’d be a fool not to use that, and there’s nothing I enjoy personally more than making a human being laugh. But then, I also think I have a serious side to me.
With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I’m not afraid to make a fool of myself.
He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.
Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.
No one but a fool is always right.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often – very last paragraph sometimes – I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.
I laugh all the time about our investigation, especially about making a fool of David Duke, who likes to think I don’t have the intelligence of an ape because he thinks I’m genetically inferior.
The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there’s always that voice in your head that asks if you’re really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you’re going to do it anyway.
That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
I don’t want to try to fool people into thinking that I’m something that I’m not.
You can get in front of the media and say, ‘Yeah, I’m working hard.’ You can’t do it in front of those other 52 guys in the locker room. You can’t fool your teammates, because they see you. They see you every day, and they see you more than your family sees you.
I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.
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?
One thing I don’t personally like is not having that privacy I used to have. Being able to do whatever I wanted to do without people recognizing me. That makes me watch what I’m doing more carefully. I’m not going to be acting no fool.
In acting, you have to fool yourself – you mess with yourself into believing things.
Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.
A good businessman never makes a contract unless he’s sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
Anybody who doesn’t think I want the Lakers to win is a fool. But I’m no homer.
Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.
When I got married in 1991, I had never been to a wedding, so I didn’t know that my wedding was tacky. I didn’t know that I was getting married in a quinceanera dress, because there was nobody there to cry over me and tell me I look like a fool.
I can really laugh at myself and make a fool out of myself.
I’m game to make a fool of myself.
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
Fraud investigations punish those who lie, knowing that they are lying, intending to fool others, and do it for money. No one should be too big to answer for that conduct.
It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
You don’t have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you’re younger you don’t want to look a fool, so you don’t do things that might make you vulnerable.
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
I’ve been very much intrigued by and impressed with women. But I’ve never been intimidated. Even if I make a fool of myself, it’s better to have tried.
Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.
Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.
I think the only way to get attention is to act like a complete ignorant fool.
Don’t let expertise fool you into seeing false boundaries or underestimating those with wild dreams.
When my body is covered and disappears, it’s not about the relationship between me and the wall, but the relationship between me as an individual and those slogans which are used to fool the public.
I won’t fool anybody by saying, ‘Oh! I’m a private person.’ I love people, flashbulbs and the paparazzi.
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.
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
A show like the ‘Only Fool and Horses‘ Christmas special got 24 million viewers, so practically everyone in the country was watching. But of course it’s a different world now, with so many channels. And those kind of figures are really difficult to achieve.
I think you can fool people once but you can’t fool the people all the time.
Anyone who ghettoizes any form of media is a fool.
If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.
In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day’s work for a writer. You can’t put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.
I wouldn’t tell nobody to sign no slave deal or sign your life away or nothing like that, but if the deal is right and if it benefits you, you’d be a fool if you did not take advantage of it.
I’ve always been a coffee-lovin’ fool, from the time I was a kid.
You can fool a lot of yourself but you can’t fool the soul.
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
I think that people like Bloomberg, they’re complete thugs. No question about it. But on the other hand, it must be said that they are politically savvy. They don’t get into those positions of power – in the case of Bloomberg, both economic and political power – by being anybody’s fool.
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
It’s impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can’t fool the fans.
By 2003, every fool was getting into real estate. The checkout girl at my local supermarket handed me her newly printed real estate agent business card.
I am the fool, and must be the sufferer, if it be not of God.
It’s interesting: when your wife is pregnant and you’re expecting, everyone’s like, ‘It’s incredible. Get ready. It’s magic. It’s the most life-changing experience you’ll ever have. Brace yourself for heaven.’ And then the second the baby comes, everyone’s like, ‘Welcome to hell! Ha ha ha! You fool!’
I go out there and make a fool of myself. It’s inevitable.
Any fool can make enough money to survive. It’s another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It’s a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.
Shinsuke Nakamura is probably one of the best wrestlers I’ve ever been in the ring with. He’s very unorthodox. Everything he does is with knockout power. He’s a guy who is very flamboyant, so don’t let his Michael Jackson antics fool you. This guy is deadly.
I am no fool.
You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
Treat a boy like a fool and he’ll act like a fool, I say, but there’s some folks need convincing.
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.
Concentrate and think upon the problem in mind until a satisfactory conclusion is reached, and then finally go ahead. If you have made a mistake, all right. Never find fault with a man because he has made a mistake. It is only a fool that makes the same mistake the second time.
What one fool can understand, another can.
I’ve never taken a lesson in my life, and I can play every instrument there is. I play by ear, but I can fool anybody into thinking I went to some conservatory of music.
Trump is like a Shakespearean ‘fool’: he seems crass because he speaks the truth.
A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.
I was watching TV, and there was a girl acting a fool. And I was like, ‘I could do that.’
A fool and his money are soon elected.
Leadership can’t be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can’t fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.
A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that black people are not black.
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
I don’t care about making a fool of myself at all.
An unemployed court jester is nobody’s fool.
When I was younger I would be taken for a ride alot, I would believe anybody at face value, I was quite a lallu actually everybody would fool me, exploit me for my work and talent and I would cry about it later.
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
The thing that I’ve learned, not just from writing comics but also from writing television programs like ‘Law & Order,’ is that you can fool some of the people some of the time – but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
Interviewers actively fool themselves, finding ways to learn from interviews even if there’s actually nothing there to learn from.
More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they’ve got to go about it themselves – they can’t depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what’s going on all over the world.
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.
Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
You can fool the people once, twice, but you can’t fool them all the time. You should tell them honestly what you can do for them.
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master’s ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It’s not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.
You never really see me acting a fool on TV.
You can’t depend on the kind of folks people think they are – you’ve got to go by what they do. And I wouldn’t give much for a man that some folks hadn’t thought was a fool, in his time.
People who think they’re making a fool of themselves on the dance floor usually do.
In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
Only a genius can play a fool.
To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
People say child stars have a hard time ‘because of the entertainment business,’ but I think there’s a dysfunction before all that. I use the analogy, ‘If you’re a fool without money, you’ll be a fool with money.’
I was always a show-off – as a kid I was never afraid to make a fool of myself, and I guess that’s still true.
If you choose to do something that you know you cannot do, or that is going to be very difficult, then you are a fool!
I’m not a fool with my money. I’ve known what it’s like to be poor and I don’t splash it around stupidly.
You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
If people know too much about you, I think you become a little less interesting as an actor – your job is to fool people.
I wouldn’t know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago.
Had the WWE fights were artificial and pre-scripted, there would have been no need for wrestlers like The Great Khali and The Undertaker. You cannot fool thousands of people crammed into a stadium and sitting four to five feet away from you in the ring.
Every day should be a good day. People fool themselves that they’ll be here forever.
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
If your character is just out there acting a fool, viewers are gonna say, ‘Why am I watching this?’ But if he’s whispering, ‘I don’t really want to die,’ there’s a level of vulnerability cemented in these bad characters.
Perhaps the most pernicious strain of contemporary criticism says one thing before it says anything else, says it to whatever historical event or cultural happenstance is supposedly at issue: ‘You can’t fool me.’
The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
There is only a finger‘s difference between a wise man and a fool.
Every success story has a parent who says, ‘over my dead body.’ Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you’re acting the fool, ‘you know I worry about you sometimes.’
Any time you give the average person the opportunity to explain themselves on a national scale, they’re always going to sound like a fool.
We should not fool ourselves. We are not one of the world’s top teams any more.
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.
It’s an old Elizabethan idea. The fool is the only one who is allowed to make fun of the king because he is a fool. I can say whatever I want about anybody else because I’m just an idiot talking – I’m not insisting that I’m any smarter than anyone else. It’s satire.
The fool inherits, but the wise must get.
I think I always resented the fact that people thought I was trying to entertain them with my multifaceted, chameleonlike character changes. Although I liked doing that, I wasn’t out to fool people and say ‘Guess which one is me.’
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.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
I don’t care about making a fool of myself on stage anymore. I don’t care what people think.
Drama school is really a forum for making a fool of yourself.
You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.
I don’t really mind what people say about my love life or anything like that, but the one thing is that, yes, I do sing and write all my own music. That is something that I hold really dear. And yeah, I made a fool of myself in front of the world, but it was also great to pick myself back up and go on tour.
The red carpet is a beautiful situation for people. I think everybody appreciates it and loves it and honors it. Nobody really acts a fool because they know this is a one-time thing.
I’ve always made a fool out of myself.
A fool must now and then be right, by chance.
Don’t be fool’s, don’t be complacent, and stop being apathetic.
He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
I went on the ‘Letterman‘ show the first time to plug something, and then I came back as the Fool, the court jester.
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.
Drama is easy to fool people with, but you can’t trick people into laughing.
I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.
I believe that love between people is the greatest life-giving force in the world. It’s intensely frustrating and inevitably makes a fool of you, but you can’t stop going back to it, and it’s pretty much the defining experience of a human being.
When you’re around some of the greatest minds in boxing, and you don’t take something from it, you’re a fool. I would just sit and listen to Don King talk all day, and everyone would be like, ‘He talks too much.’ I would tell them, ‘No, there’s wisdom in these conversations.’
Don’t let anybody fool you who says Islam can be moderated. It will not be moderated in a million years.
