"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."
— George W. Bush

"He who hesitates is a damned fool."
— Mae West

"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."
— Winston S. Churchill

"A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough."
— Robert Jordan

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain--and most do."
— Dale Carnegie

""Who are you calling?" (claire)
"Pizza hut" (shane)
"Loser" (claire)"
— Rachel Caine (Feast of Fools)

"Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?"
— Mark Twain (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)

"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."
— George Gordon Byron

"Oh, what fools these mortals be!"
— William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

"I'll tell you the only real truth. Cunt is where it all begins and where it all ends. Cunt is the only thing worth living for. Everything else is a fake, a fraud and just shit. "
— Mario Puzo (Fools Die)

""I am a fool for Christ...whose fool are you?""
— Brother Andrew (The Narrow Road : Stories of Those Who Walk This Road Together)

"It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools."
— Henry James (The Spoils of Poynton)

"I would never say, to justify a lapse in principle, "I am only human"--as though that were some kind of justification for weakness, moral weakness. Flesh and blood is much, much stronger than fools believe."
— Jack Henry Abbott (In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison)

"Fools make feasts and wise men eat them."
— Benjamin Franklin (Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School)

"We're fools whether we dance or not so we might as well dance."
— Japanese Proverb

"there are more fools in the world than there are people."
— Heinrich Heine

"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools"
— William Shakespeare

"So said Hair-Face, and they killed him, because, they said, he was a wild man and wanted to go back and live in a tree. It was very strange. Whenever a man arose and wanted to go forward all those that stood still said he went backward and should be killed. And the poor people helped stone him, and were fools. We were all fools, except those who were fat and did no work. The fools were called wise, and the wise were stoned. Men who worked did not get enough to eat, and the men who did not work ate too much."
— Jack London (To Build a Fire and Other Stories)

"In history, as elsewhere, fools rush in, and the angels may perhaps be forgiven if rather than tread in those treacherous paths they tread upon the fools instead."
— G.R. Elton

"We were fools and now we were driving to our deaths in a rental car. Janet Jackson was tinkling from the speakers, asking what we had done for her as of late"
— Dave Eggers (You Shall Know Our Velocity!)

"A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

-Hamlet"
— William Shakespeare

"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."
— John Dryden (Absalom And Achitophel)