Fool
I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
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.
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.
Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
I must learn to love the fool in me — the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.
The message is pretty clear: Americans are sick and tired of the doubletalk coming out of Washington, of us going home and saying we're conservative and then coming up here and voting for 10,000 earmarks. We can't fool America anymore; the media is too good. They're reporting what we're really doing.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain — and most fools do.
If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.
Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.
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.
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.
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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