It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.
I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
A fool is wise in his eyes.
I am the fool, and must be the sufferer, if it be not of God.
But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.
Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.
We should not fool ourselves. We are not one of the world's top teams any more.
The owner of a company with supertight margins - say, a restaurant, retailer, or producer of commodity goods - would be a fool not to keep a close eye on the numbers. But when I make big decisions, numbers are seldom, if ever, the tiebreaker.
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.
He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
Don't be fool's, don't be complacent, and stop being apathetic.
I'm not scared to look like a complete fool in front of people. It's just not one of my insecurities.
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
Shinsuke Nakamura is probably one of the best wrestlers I've ever been in the ring with. He's very unorthodox. Everything he does is with knockout power. He's a guy who is very flamboyant, so don't let his Michael Jackson antics fool you. This guy is deadly.
Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.
It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans.
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
I don't want to try to fool people into thinking that I'm something that I'm not.
I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
