fool quotes

• People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel. (Andre Maurois) [people/look/fool/intelligence]
• Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. (Andre Maurois) [happiness/consolation/fool]
• Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. (Abraham Lincoln) [fool/speak]
• You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. (Abraham Lincoln) [fool/people/time/people]
• Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. (Dale Carnegie) [fool/character/control/understanding]
• "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. (Mark Twain) [people/think/fool]
• Who loves not wine, women and song, Remains a fool his whole life long. (Martin Luther) [wine/women/fool/life]
• A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool. (Henry Fielding) [charity/matter/fool]
• Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. (William Shakespeare) [fool/time]
• The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a clever woman to manage a fool. (Rudyard Kipling) [needs/fool]
• True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. ( Akhenaton) [wisdom/mind/fool/ignorance]
• There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. (Francis Bacon) [happiness/wisdom/fool]
• A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. (William Blake) [fool]
• The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. (William Blake) [fool/willpower]
• The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. (Samuel Butler) [pleasure/fool/willpower/willpower]
• Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. (Samuel Butler) [fool/truth]
• Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do. (Dale Carnegie) [fool]
• The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part. (Miguel De Cervantes) [character/fool]
• 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) [fool]
• It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error. (Marcus Cicero) [nature/fool]
• It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. (Marcus Cicero) [quality/fool/forget]
• There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. (Charles Caleb Colton) [happiness/wisdom/fool]
• He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. (Charles Caleb Colton) [fool]
• The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world. (Charles Caleb Colton) [fool]
• A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart. ( Confucius) [fool]
• Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run? (John Donne) [fool/sun/windows]
• Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds. (John Dryden) [love/fool]
• Never was patriot yet, but was a fool. (John Dryden) [fool]
• The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [child/fool/sound/power]
• A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool. (Henry Fielding) [charity/matter/fool]
• Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor. (Henry Fielding) [fool/honesty/willpower]

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