fool quotes

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

An unemployed court jester is nobody’s fool.

What one fool can understand, another can.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.