Quotes about Fool

I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.

Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you
cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
William Faulkner, Mosquitoes
Any fool can make a rule
and any fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau, Journal #14
The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.
Criss Jami, Killosophy
True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and
glamorous lifestyle; it takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do
things that have not been done.
Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
Bruce Lee
I wish to Heaven I was married," she said resentfully as she attacked the yams with loathing.
"I'm tired of everlastingly being unnatural and never doing anything I want to do. I'm tired of
acting like I don't eat more than a bird, and walking when I want to run and saying I feel faint
after a waltz, when I could dance for two days and never get tired. I'm tired of saying, 'How
wonderful you are!' to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of
pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're
doing it... I can't eat another bite.
Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance
of having them fully satisfied; and a highly endowed being will always feel that any happiness
which he can look for, as the world is constituted, is imperfect. But he can learn to bear its
imperfections, if they are at all bearable; and they will not make him envy the being who is

indeed unconscious of the imperfections, but only because he feels not at all the good which
those imperfections qualify.
It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates
dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is only
because they only know their own side of the question.
John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism
Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor.
Christopher Moore, Fool
Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.
Pete Seeger
I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and were
both unhappy, and we both suffer.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the Idiot
I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.
Kurt Vonnegut
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.
Thomas Fuller
In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a
wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.
Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
Sarcasm will make your tits fall off.
Christopher Moore, Fool
He shook his head pityingly. This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood
about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one
turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man's fortune for the night may turn upon
one hand. But a man's whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this naught of a human, this
fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world?
And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draft.
Not all men are destined for greatness, I reminded him.
Are you sure, Fitz? Are you sure? What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to
the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine. Why should not a mother say to
herself, if I raise this child aright, if I love and care for her, she shall live a life that brings joy to
those about her, and thus I have changed the world? Why should not the farmer that plants a
seed say to his neighbor, this seed I plant today will feed someone, and that is how I change the

world today?
This is philosophy, Fool. I have never had time to study such things.
No, Fitz, this is life. And no one has time not to think of such things. Each creature in the world
should consider this thing, every moment of the heart's beating. Otherwise, what is the point of
arising each day?
Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin
There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This
is new, and therefore better.
John Brunner, the Shockwave Rider
No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
Deferential, glad to be of use,
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous
Almost, at times, the Fool.
T.S. Eliot
Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool
again.
Criss Jami, Killosophy
Honor is a fool's prize. Glory is of no use to the dead.
Drew Karpyshyn, Path of Destruction
The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call
yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson.
Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones
The Cutter leaned toward me, resting his forehead against mine. 'Fool me once,' he whispered,
'shame on you.' He pressed the bridge of his nose against mine, his breath burning the back of
my throat. His voice was rough and furious. 'Fool me twice, and I will cut out your fucking
throat.
Brenna Yovanoff, the Replacement
What is your name?" asked Lear.
Caius," said Kent.
And whence do you hail?"
From Bonking, sire."
Well, yes, lad, as do we all," said Lear, "but from what town?
Christopher Moore, Fool

Love? Sodding, bloody, tossing, bloody, sodding, bloody love? Irrelevant, superfluous, bloody,
ruddy, rotten, sodding love? What ho? Wherefore? What the f*ck? Love?
Christopher Moore, Fool
If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
Alexandre Dumas, the Count of Monte Cristo
Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into
using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.
Criss Jami, Killosophy

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on
both of us.
Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
One-track mind easily predicted.
Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
The moment you start arguing with an ignorant fool, you have already lost.
Ali ibn Abi Talib