A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. Votes: 5
Bruce LeeLife is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. Votes: 4
Sholom AleichemWe must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. Votes: 2
Martin Luther King, Jr.The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves. Votes: 2
Marilyn MonroeAn intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. Votes: 2
Ernest HemingwayThis age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school. Votes: 2
Thomas DekkerHe dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. Votes: 2
James HunekerBetter to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. Votes: 2
Abraham LincolnIf I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me. Votes: 2
Angelina JolieA fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. Votes: 2
William ShakespeareHere cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever. Votes: 2
Charles LambThe cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month. Votes: 2
Fyodor DostoevskyA fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. Votes: 2
Joseph RouxWise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something Votes: 1
PlatoIt's a heartache Nothing but a heartache Hits you when it's too late Hits you when you're down Votes: 1
Bonnie TylerA fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. Votes: 0
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonIn war the first principle is to disobey orders. Any fool can obey orders!
John Fisher, 1st Baron FisherA man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
Anna Brownell JamesonThe Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.
Rosalyn Sussman YalowWhen a king creates an office, Providence creates immediately a fool to buy it.
Jean-Baptiste ColbertI hold him but a fool that will endanger His body for a girl that loves him not.
William ShakespeareShe was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference.
W. Somerset MaughamHuman life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.
Friedrich NietzscheIn the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.
Georg C. LichtenbergI know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
William FaulknerLet the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.
William ShenstoneEveryone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn't know came along and did it.
Albert EinsteinWhat a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives.
Henry David ThoreauIf somebody praises us and if we have any humility we will feel totally like a fool.
Radhanath SwamiIn every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
Boris PasternakIt is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.
Fyodor DostoevskyYou've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.
George S. KaufmanI've always found it much more dangerous to fool with a man's mistress than his wife.
Harold RobbinsEducation makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.
Nassim Nicholas TalebFor you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.
Paul McCartneyFor God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
Robert Louis StevensonOft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.
William ShenstoneA fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.
Fyodor DostoevskyA reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.
Gelett BurgessI'm not afraid to look like a fool - and I think when you're not afraid, you never do.
Lara Flynn BoyleWhen you have twin four-year-olds, you are able to dance like a fool, often. And I do.
Neil Patrick HarrisHe is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.
Quintus Curtius RufusHaving perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don't fool.
Robert BreaultName the season's first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year.
Robert BreaultYou should invest in a business that even a fool can run, because someday a fool will.
Warren BuffettTraveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
Amos Bronson AlcottI think that we really fool ourselves about our ability to be safe and secure nowadays.
Anna QuindlenRecording wasn't as important to me as actually being to get on stage and act the fool.
Bootsy CollinsOne fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.
Coventry PatmorePeople have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
Francis BaconA stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
Frank Herbert[W]e avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble[.
Giacomo CasanovaEvery fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.
Harry AndersonYou emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool
Howard BarkerAm I a fool to hope for kindness/support from someone u have given nothing but that to?
Joanna GarciaWhat a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to avenge myself!
Alexandre DumasI wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
Alice JamesI suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.
Anne BishopI have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
Baron de MontesquieuWe bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile - The mind turns fool, before the cheek is dry
Edward YoungA gun in your hand makes a fool out of you. A gun in your hand makes a target out of me.
Henry RollinsYou've been acting like Jesus owes you a favor, but he's a little smart for you to fool.
Jimmy BuffettI have your word?â âYou trust my word?â âYouâre an idealistic fool. Of course.
Karen Marie MoningThose who have themselves for a spiritual director have a fool for a spiritual director.
Philip NeriThe greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.
Washington AllstonThe whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.
Alfred BesterThe biggest fool is one who minds the business of others rather than minding his very own
Amit AbrahamDon't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.
Andrew SullivanRemember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Bryant H. McGillYou can't fool an audience with lots of bits and pieces. You have to lead them somewhere.
Charlotte RamplingA man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
George Bernard ShawAny fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel ButlerAny fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.
Theodore RoethkeThere's something I'm afraid to say to you too early, but I'd be a fool to wait too late.
Toby KeithOnly a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
Otto von BismarckIf you don't allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.
Charlie MungerLife is not fair...Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.
David BrinThe only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.
Frederick Salomon PerlsIn any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.
H. L. MenckenIt ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.
Josh BillingsThe fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.
Napoleon BonaparteYou've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.
Ray BradburyArty farty, you'll never fool your Aunt, who knew you picked your nose and wet your pants.
Ray DaviesWhat is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.
Victor HugoEvery sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!"
Alexander MacLaren