No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. – Erica Jong
People sometimes turn out to be almost the opposite of how they present. It isn’t because they’re trying to fool you or because they’re hypocrites. It’s because they badly want to be that thing, and so they’ll try to be it. – Mary Gaitskill
People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he’s out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can’t win, and when he brings out the line-up card. – Frank Robinson
Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can’t fool anybody into buying a record. – Nile Rodgers
I was always a little embarrassed when there was an act on television that requires a great deal of skill but is a little goofy, and the host comes over and acts like the person doing this skill is some sort of fool for having learned to do something that’s very, very difficult. – Penn Jillette
Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue. – Francis Spufford
For folks in Washington to believe that they are smart enough to pick the next energy technology is, in my judgment, the height of arrogance. For me or any of my peers to pick energy-technology X as the solution to solving America’s energy problems is just a fool’s errand. – Mike Pompeo
When I got married in 1991, I had never been to a wedding, so I didn’t know that my wedding was tacky. I didn’t know that I was getting married in a quinceanera dress, because there was nobody there to cry over me and tell me I look like a fool. – Niecy Nash
When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed. – Felicity Kendal
And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he’s a fool. – Dan Aykroyd
These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn’ fool if they weren’t. – Dylan Thomas
Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you. – Donald Tusk
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool. – George Santayana
That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise. – George Eliot
Fortunately I didn’t get educated because if I’d got educated I’d be an educated fool now. – David Bailey
I’m not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays! – Norman Rockwell
I’ve learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one. – Daniel J. Boorstin
I think any writer is a fool if he doesn’t do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It’s fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it. – Elmore Leonard
Allah is with people who show patience. If you are down in the dumps, Allah will help you if you have belief. But this is a personal thing between you and him. You can’t fool Allah. – Mohammad Azharuddin
You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can only make a monkey out of the voters every four years! – Pat Paulsen
A discerning man keeps wisdom in view, but a fool’s eyes wander to the ends of the earth. – The Bible Proverbs 17:24
My man has to be more intelligent than I am, which is difficult to find. He should definitely be more successful than me, which is not so difficult to find. I’d be a fool to expect a better looking man than me, which is impossible to find. – Kangana Ranaut
I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool – and I’m not any of those – to say that I don’t write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues. – Maya Angelou
Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can’t beat them, and if you can’t beat them, join them, as they say. As I’ve got older I’ve become very interested in that part of the work. – Lars von Trier