Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what god is doing.

Is it the damned fool, who, at that dark moment, laughs courage right into you.