So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.
Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.
To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a 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.
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.
The fool inherits, but the wise must get.