Fool
Definition: A person who acts unwisely or imprudently; a silly person. Trick or deceive
(someone); dupe. Foolish; silly. A cold dessert made of pureed fruit mixed or served with cream or custard.
Number of Quotes: 46
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a
conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
Franklin P. Adams
By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.
Scott Adams
There's a sucker born every minute.
P. T. Barnum
The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.
Arthur Brisbane
Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside
advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked.
Warren Buffett
The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.
Warren Buffett
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
Samuel Butler (Author)
I have always heard it said, that to do a kindness to clowns, is like throwing water into the sea.
Cervantes
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
George Chapman
When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
Ilka Chase
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Charles Colton
To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people. I've known sheep that could outwit you.
I've worn dresses with higher IQs. But you think you're an intellectual, don't you, ape?
Jamie Lee Curtis
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and
philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.
William Faulkner
Never give a sucker an even break.
W. C. Fields
There are only two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is
the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money away from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.
Henry Ford
He that teaches himself hath a fool for a master.
Benjamin Franklin
Some die because they feel everything, others because they feel nothing. Some are fools because they suffer no regrets, and others because they do.
Baltasar Gracián
Oh, innocent victims of Cupid,
Remember this terse little verse;
To let a fool kiss you is stupid,
To let a kiss fool you is worse.
E. Y. Harburg
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
Eric Hoffer
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard
Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only
compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
Samuel Johnson
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson
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.
Ben Jonson
I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer.
Florence King
As usual, there's a great woman behind every idiot.
John Lennon
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all
of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln
It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
John Stuart Mill
An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on boring future generations.
Montesquieu
Experience! Wise men do not need it.
Experience! Idiots do not heed it.
Ogden Nash
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
Helen Rowland
Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
Friedrich Schiller
When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools:
King Lear
William Shakespeare
'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That Vanity's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men of wit
Will condescend to taste a bit.
Jonathan Swift
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz
Ah well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His work must be contemplated with respect.
Mark Twain
Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together.
This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.
Mark Twain
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
Lawyers should never marry other lawyers. This is called inbreeding, from which comes idiot children and more lawyers.
David Wayne
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too
careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me.
Oscar Wilde
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
Oscar Wilde
There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the
opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde
Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.
Walter Winchell
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Edward Young
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