Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.
To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.
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.
I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.
I don't really mind what people say about my love life or anything like that, but the one thing is that, yes, I do sing and write all my own music. That is something that I hold really dear. And yeah, I made a fool of myself in front of the world, but it was also great to pick myself back up and go on tour.
To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.
A fool and his words are soon parted.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.