The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.

Fool witch once, shame on you. Fool witch twice, oozing sores and an eternal rash in private areas.

All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.

The shame of fools conceals their open wounds. [Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.]

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.

There are enough fools in Washington to destroy the country without any help from Muslim terrorists.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.

For the turning away of the simple, shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

Being flirty is a way of letting a guy know you're interested without making a fool out of yourself.

But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.

Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.

I am insulted by the persistent asertion that I want war. Am I a fool? War! It would settle nothing.

We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?

Don't let expertise fool you into seeing false boundaries or underestimating those with wild dreams.

I'm not scared to look like a complete fool in front of people. It's just not one of my insecurities.

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.

The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.

A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.

If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not.

She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].

They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.

You can't close your eyes to the lies perpetrated by dangerous fools / 'cos they're handing out rules

And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.

Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.

What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

I like being fooled. When I watch someone who does sleight-of-hand and fools me, it's a great feeling.

I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

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

You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?

A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.' Quite often men are fools.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

There is an increasing market for mental hospital stuff. I am a fool if I don't relive it, recreate it.

A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there

It`s acceptable for men to act the fool. When women try, they`re considered aggressive and opinionated.

Listen to others' advice and deliberate yourself. Only fools acts thoughtlessly, without consideration!

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