A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
George Bernard Shaw
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The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Carl Sagan
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
Benjamin Disraeli
The first priest was the first rogue who met the first fool.
Carl Sagan
I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
William Shakespeare
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool.
William Shakespeare
No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.
Sir George Savile
He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom.
Benjamin Franklin
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain; but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
Dale Carnegie
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a clever woman to manage a fool.
Rudyard Kipling
The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.
Kin Hubbard
A fool judges people by the presents they give him.
Chinese Proverb
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
Albert Camus
A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.
Spanish Proverb
Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his.
George S. Patton
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb
I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.
Danny Kaye
If you follow a fool, you're a fool yourself.
Jamaican Proverb
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
Jonathan Swift
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Publilius Syrus
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
Josh Billings
A fool is like the big drum that beats fast but does not realize its hollowness.
Malayan Proverb
I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.
Leon Spinks
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
Margaret Mead
A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
African Proverb
The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
Booth Tarkington
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
John Dryden
Any fool can cause a strike. But no fool can resolve one.
George Anthony
I'd be a fool if I said I didn't look at the clock every couple of seconds.
Jamar Wilson
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
Samuel Johnson
The most difficult character in comedy is that of a fool, and he must be no simpleton who plays the part.
Miguel de Cervantes
He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave.
Sir William Drummond
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.
Robert Maynard Hutchins
Lend me your ear, while I call you a fool.
Jethro Tull
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Charlie Chaplin
You'd ask for specific things and he'd basically try to fool you.
Michael Assael
But you should never let that gentle personality fool you - he could have a temper at times.
Charlie Creamer
'Tis hard if all is false that I advance A fool must now and then be right, by chance.
William Cowper
Don't let him fool you. He loves the attention.
Michael Robinson
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Thomas Tusser
They called me a fool when I said this side could challenge for the title. Now they can think again. This is the best Roma side I've been in.
Francesco Totti
We were just a bunch of damn fool kids.
John Richard
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
John Dryden
APRIL FOOL, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
Ambrose Bierce
The wise man has his foibles, as well as the fool. But the difference between them is, that the foibles of the one are known to himself and concealed from the world; and the foibles of the other are known to the world and concealed from himself.
John Mason Brown
It was more horseplay than anything else, fooling around.
Bryan Thompson
The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.
Theodor Reik
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
Nicholas Boileau
Most liars can fool most people most of the time.
Paul Ekman
Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away...bigger fool than when he came to it.
Copernicus
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Otto von Bismarck
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian
Enjoy this time, man. This is the only time in your life you can even consider getting a woman to fool around with you in one of those little a** bunk beds.
Owen Smith
Any lawyer who speculates on the outcome of a court case is a fool.
Dave Hunnicutt
He cleared it up in the second day in the grand jury and he did not intend to deceive them on the first day. He corrected himself and he certainly didn't intend to fool them.
Jesse Berman
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Al Bernstein
When someone demands blind obedience, you'd be a fool not to peek.
Jim Fiebig
You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think.
The Talmud
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
Agatha Christie
Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.
Robertson Davies
He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow men.
Kahlil Gibran
Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Edward Young
We were always the two fooling around in meetings.
Chris Kemoeatu
RASCAL, n. A fool considered under another aspect.
Ambrose Bierce
You don't need a cape. But an actor who refuses a cape is a fool.
John Didonna
I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.
Gwen Stefani
...and now April's ruling April's looming April's fooling, around, in yet another round, for this year's ruling April fool.
Mark Danielewski
A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
John Churton Collins
Jesus is fiction. The Church is fooling the people -- and must be held responsible.
Luigi Cascioli
The fool inherits, but the wise must get.
William Cartwright
Anybody who tells you we shouldn't pay attention to these people because there is not a lot of them is a fool.
Warren Kinsella
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
John Ciardi
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
Boris Pasternak
You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights.
Bob Barker
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
George Santayana
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln
'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
Anybody who writes us off now is a fool.
Leon Moore
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Charles de Montesquieu
The current bills are cleaner, more taxpayer-friendly. There's no fooling around with the complexity of a cap on how much you can defer.
Bill Bates
Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.
Joseph Cannon
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Sir William Drummond
Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed.
Dr. Robert Schuller
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.
Francois Rabelais
Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.
Nicolas Boileau
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
John Mccain
COURT FOOL, n. The plaintiff.
Ambrose Bierce
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
Wilson Mizner
It was great to make him look like a fool. His attitude towards animals is despicable.
Yvonne Taylor
A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
Anna Jameson
You had to be a fool not to realize that.
Joseph Zadroga
We're not trying to scare anybody. We're not trying to fool anybody. That's just the way this show is done.
Craig Adams
"The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool. College examinations notwithstanding, it takes a very smart fella to say "I don't know the answer!"
Jerome Lawrence
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
I'd be a fool if I wasn't.
Lance Williams
Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.
Archibald Alexander
Th' athletic fool, to whom what Heaven denied / Of soul, is well compensated in limbs.
John Armstrong
There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
Diogenes Of Sinope
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There's no fool like an old fool -- you can't beat experience.
Jacob Braude
Anybody that doesn't like this industry is a fool that's not up to date on what teens and young adults are buying these days.
Dan Ahrens
You don't have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool enough to get elected.
Gerald Barzan
CIRCUS, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
Ambrose Bierce
No one but a fool is always right.
David Hare
A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.
Al Bernstein
I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.
Katharine Whitehorn
I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.
David Gerrold
He was just fooling around while waiting for a charter.
Robert Lugiewicz
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
James Thurber
King Fool and the Human Rights Nitwits.
John Stokes
I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.
Paul Gauguin
The April Fool was him. He screwed up.
Nancy Holton
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Charles Caleb Colton
I don't want to fool anyone, we should win and it should be a strong victory. But we have to be very serious about it.
Nicolas Massu
This fool never runs out of energy.
Brian Krause
I'm not about to vote for something that is a sham. This bill backed off from any real enforcement at all. You don't have enforcement, you don't have a bill, and let's not fool the public.
Rep. David Schultheis
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
Thomas Shadwell
Who's more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him?
Obi Wan Kenobi
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Joseph Roux
There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.
Edward Teller
I do anticipate that. But I can't say if or when that would happen. If he's there, he's fooling me.
Kevin Poston
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
Alice James
Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous.(He is also a fool.)
Lazarus Long
A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
Lord Melbourne
It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.
Joey Skaggs
I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.
Edward G. Bulwer lytton
The fool is thirsty in the midst of water.
Ethiopian Proverb
A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.
Erasmus Darwin
A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
Elizabeth I Of England
There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.
Elizabeth I
He'd kick the pitcher's (butt). He'd do it. No (fooling) around, bro.
Edgar Renteria
You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.
Eden Phillpotts
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