309 Quotes About Fools

There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

So-called intellectuals conceptualize love; fools just love.Fools breathe air; intellectuals (so called) breathe ego.

Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

[One} who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism--unless the criticized isn't within earshot.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest.