Quotes on Fool

Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went to the Moon because it was the militaristically expedient thing to do.

A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly will not a pair of bright eyes make pardonable? What dullness may not red lips are sweet accents render pleasant? And so, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.

A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.

Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe.

Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.

He that Opposes his own Judgment against the Current of the Times, ought to be back'd with unanswerable Truths; and he that has that Truth on his Side, is a Fool, as well as a Coward, if he is afraid to own it, because of the Currency or Multitude of other Mens Opinions.

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find "tomorrow" on the calendars of fools.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

We have reached the age, those of us to whom fortune has assigned a post in life's struggle, when beaten and smashed and biffed by the lashing of the dragon's tail, we begin to appreciate that the old man was not such a fool after all. We saw our parents wrestling with the same dragon, and we thought, though we never spoke a thought aloud, 'Why doesn't he hit him on the head?' Alas, comrads, we know now. We have hit the dragon on the head and we have seen the dragon smile.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of soup.

Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy motions lovers'seasons run? Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide Late schoolboys, and sour prentices, Go tell court-huntsmen that the King will ride, Call countryants to harvest offices; Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

If you don’t want your life to be 'messed up', don’t fool around with those who have messed up theirs.