Quotes About Fools

A fool and his money are soon married.

— Carolyn Wells

There’s no fool like a bold fool.

— Carolyn Wells

Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.

— Elsie de Wolfe

A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.

— Nancy Astor

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

— Alexander Pope

Angels rush in when fools are almost dead.

— Rudolph Fisher

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

— Voltaire

Fine clothes may disguise, but foolish words will disclose a fool.

— Aesop

Let us be thankful for the fools.  But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

— Mark Twain

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

— William Shakespeare

To make a trade of laughing at a fool is the highway to become one.

— Thomas Fuller

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so.

— John Donne

He who loves not wine, woman, and song, remains a fool for his whole life long.

— John Heinrich Voss (attrib.)

Every man has his follies — and often they are the most interesting things he has got.

— Josh Billings

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

— H. L. Mencken

Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.

— Robert Maynard Hutchins

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

It’s better to keep one’s mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and resolve all doubt.

— Abraham Lincoln

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad.

— William Shakespeare

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself.  There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.  So what the hell, leap.

— Cynthia Heimel

I only open my mouth to change feet.

— Emily Paine