Definition of fool

"fool" in the noun sense

1. fool, sap, saphead, muggins, tomfool

a person who lacks good judgment

2. chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, sucker, soft touch, mug

a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of

3. jester, fool, motley fool

a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages

"fool" in the verb sense

1. fool, gull, befool

make a fool or dupe of

2. fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away

spend frivolously and unwisely

"Fritter away one's inheritance"

3. gull, dupe, slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put one over, put one across

fool or hoax

"The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"

"You can't fool me!"

4. horse around, arse around, fool around, fool

indulge in horseplay

"Enough horsing around

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Quotations for fool

One fool makes many. [ Proverb ]

I am fortune's fool. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]

More knave than fool. [ Proverb ]

No fool like an old fool. [ Proverb ]

One fool makes a hundred. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Fool's haste is no speed. [ Proverb ]

A fool's bolt is soon shot. [ Proverb ]

Every fool will be meddling. [ Bible ]

All fool, or all philosopher. [ Proverb ]

A wager is a fool's argument. [ Proverb ]

A rogue is a roundabout fool. [ Coleridge ]

An open knave is a great fool. [ Proverb ]

Better be a fool than a knave. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The gravest fish is an oyster,
The gravest bird's an owl,
The gravest beast's an ass,
And the gravest man's a fool. [ Proverb ]

A fool's head never grows grey. [ Proverb ]

The fool doth think he is wise. [ Shakespeare ]

A wise man may learn of a fool. [ French Proverb ]

God help the fool, quoth Pedley. [ Proverb ]

Travelling is a fool's paradise. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

He that cannot think, is a fool;
He that will not, is a bigot;
He that dare not, is a slave. [ Inscription on the wall of Andrew Carnegie's Library ]

The fool hath said in his heart,
There is no God. [ Bible ]

None but a fool is always right. [ Hare ]

He that sends a fool expects one. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Laughter is the hickup of a fool. [ Proverb ]

The fool rageth and is confident. [ Bible ]

A cunning woman is a knavish fool. [ Lord Lyttleton ]

A fool is wise in his own conceit. [ Proverb ]

A fool can dance without a fiddle. [ Proverb ]

It needs brains to be a real fool. [ George MacDonald ]

Authority intoxicates,
And makes mere sots of magistrates;
The fumes of it invade the brain.
And make men giddy, proud and vain;
By this the fool commands the wise;
The noble with the base complies;
The sot assumes the role of wit.
And cowards make the base submit. [ Butler ]

A fool's speech is a bubble of air. [ Proverb ]

To the fool-king belongs the world. [ Schiller ]

Sometimes a fool speaks reasonably.

O flattery!
How soon thy smooth insinuating oil
Supples the toughest fool! [ Fenton ]

A fool may give a wise man counsel. [ Proverb ]

A knave discovered is a great fool. [ Proverb ]

A white wall is the paper of a fool. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Incredulity is the wisdom of a fool. [ H. W. Shaw ]

A flatterer is the shadow of a fool. [ Sir Thomas Overbury ]

No man is always wise except a fool. [ Proverb ]

Every one hath a fool in his sleeve. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that is heady is ruled by a fool. [ Proverb ]

As the fool thinks, the bell clinks. [ Proverb ]

If a fool have success it ruins him. [ Proverb ]

White walls are fool's writing paper. [ Proverb ]

The fool is always beginning to live. [ Proverb ]

An envious man is a squint-eyed fool. [ Proverb ]

A madman and a fool are no witnesses. [ Proverb ]

A fool and his money are soon parted. [ Proverb ]

He who is born a fool is never cured. [ Proverb ]

O noble fool!
A worthy fool! Motley's the only wear. [ William Shakespeare ]

Even the fool is wise after the event. [ Homer ]

It is wisdom sometimes to seem a fool. [ Proverb ]

The wise man is born to rule the fool. [ Proverb ]

A fool wants his cloak in a rainy day. [ Proverb ]

I will not dance to every fool's pipe. [ Proverb ]

The fool wanders, the wise man travels. [ Proverb ]

The older the fool is, the worse he is. [ Proverb ]

Self-exaltation is the fool's paradise. [ Proverb ]

Praise a fool, and you water his folly. [ Proverb ]

No creature smarts so little as a fool. [ Pope ]

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. [ Twelfth Night ]

A fool is better than an obstinate man. [ Proverb ]

Fool's bolts may sometimes hit the mark. [ Proverb ]

The wise man knows himself to be a fool. [ William Shakespeare ]

A fool when he hath spoke hath done all. [ Proverb ]

Every fool thinks himself clever enough. [ Danish Proverb ]

A fool to pleasure, yet a slave to fame. [ Pope ]

A fool when he is silent is counted wise. [ Proverb ]

A fool's bolt may sometimes hit the mark. [ Proverb ]

Every fool is pleased with his own hobby. [ French Proverb ]

In this fool's paradise he drank delight. [ Crabbe ]

He hath impudence to shew himself a fool. [ Proverb ]

He that talks to himself talks to a fool. [ Proverb ]

A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge. [ Cowper ]

There is no art that can make a fool wise. [ Proverb ]

Wisdom, though richer than Peruvian mines.
And sweeter than the sweet ambrosial hive.
What is she, but the means of happiness?
That unobtain'd, than folly more a fool. [ Young ]

He that sends a fool, means to follow him. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Praise a fool and you may make him useful. [ Danish Proverb ]

The fool saith, who would have thought it? [ Proverb ]

Love places a genius and a fool on a level. [ Gresset ]

None is a fool always; every one sometimes. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A nod for a wise man, and a rod for a fool. [ Proverb ]

No fine clothes can hide the fool or clown. [ Proverb ]

Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce. [ Churchill ]

It is a cunning part to play the fool well. [ Proverb ]

A fool may now and then be right by chance. [ Cowper ]

A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool. [ Proverb ]

Riches serve a wise man, but command a fool. [ Proverb ]

Abundance is a blessing to the wise;
The use of riches in discretion lies:
Learn this, ye men of wealth - a heavy purse
In a fool's pocket is a heavy curse. [ Cumberland ]

Every man a little beyond himself is a fool. [ Proverb ]

Every man is a fool or a physician at forty. [ Proverb ]

There are, while human miseries abound,
A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth,
Without one fool or flatterer at your board,
Without one hour of sickness or disgust. [ Armstrong ]

He is a fool that makes a wedge of his fist. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

We bleed, we tremble, we forget, we smile -
The mind turns fool, before the cheek is dry. [ Young ]

The wisest among us is a fool in some things. [ Richardson ]

Where you see a jester a fool is not far off. [ Proverb ]

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester! [ William Shakespeare ]

Opinion, that great fool, makes fools of all. [ Field ]

A fool has not stuff in him to turn out well. [ La Roche ]

Mankind is born a fool, and is led by knaves. [ Benjamin Constant ]

A heady man and a fool may wear the same cap. [ Proverb ]

Nobody thinks himself an impertinent or fool. [ Proverb ]

Send a fool to market and a fool he'll return. [ Proverb ]

The wise man changes his mind, the fool never. [ Spanish Proverb ]

He's a fool that is wiser abroad than at home. [ Proverb ]

He's a fool that is not melancholy once a day. [ Proverb ]

The learned is happy nature to explore,
The fool is happy that he knows no more;
The rich is happy in the plenty given.
The poor contents him with the care of Heaven. [ Pope ]

Love works a different way in different minds,
The fool enlightens and the wise he blinds. [ John Dryden ]

A wise look may secure a fool, if he talk not. [ Proverb ]

Let me play the fool
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come;
And let my liver rather heat with wine,
Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. [ William Shakespeare ]

How can the cat help it, if the maid be a fool? [ Proverb ]

O cursed lust of gold! when for thy sake
The fool throws up his interest in both worlds. [ Blair ]

With a fool and a knave there is no conclusion. [ Proverb ]

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool,
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
At fifty, chides his infamous delay.
Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve.
Resolves - and re-resolves; then dies the same. [ Young ]

He is a fool who thinks that others don't think. [ Spanish Proverb ]

No matter what religion a knave or a fool is of. [ Proverb ]

Good counsel makes a proud man and a fool angry. [ Proverb ]

Ah, fool! faint heart fair lady never could win. [ Spenser ]

If I am a fool, put you your finger in my mouth. [ Proverb ]

A man is a stark fool all the while he is angry. [ Proverb ]

He is a fool that thinks not that another thinks. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse. [ Proverb ]

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. [ Boileau ]

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

He that is a wise man by day is no fool by night. [ Proverb ]

I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe
The bosom of a friend will hold a secret
Mine own could not retain. [ Massinger ]

You are a fool; you do what has been done already. [ Plaut ]

A fool loses his estate before he finds his folly. [ Proverb ]

He has great need of a fool who makes himself one. [ French Proverb ]

Things all are big with jest; nothing that's plain
But may be witty, if thou hast the vein ...
Many affecting wit beyond their power,
Have got to be a dear fool for an hour. [ George Herbert ]

Tomorrow will I live, the fool does say:
Today itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday. [ Cowley ]

The fool runs away while his house is burning down. [ Proverb ]

Drunkards have a fool's tongue and a knave's heart. [ Proverb ]

Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling. [ Bacon ]

If any fool finds the cap fits him, let him wear it. [ Proverb ]

The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us. [ Earl of Beaconsfield ]

Be wise with speed;A fool at forty is a fool indeed. [ Edward Young ]

The more riches a fool hath, the greater fool he is. [ Proverb ]

Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove;
No! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error, and upon me proved;
I never writ, nor no man ever loved. [ William Shakespeare ]

He hath some wit, but a fool hath the guidance of it. [ Proverb ]

None is so wise but the fool sometimes overtakes him. [ Proverb ]

To promise and give nothings is a comfort for a fool. [ Proverb ]

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool. [ Moliere ]

While the discreet advise the fool doth his business. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat. [ Proverb ]

Cannot I be your friend, but I must be your fool too? [ Proverb ]

The fool is busy in every one's business but his own. [ Proverb ]

When a fool hath bethought himself, the market's over. [ Proverb ]

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. [ Bulwer ]

Enjoy your little while the fool is in search of more. [ Spanish Proverb ]

The fool asks much, but he is more fool that grants it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It is pleasant to play the fool (i.e. relax) sometimes. [ Horace ]

There is a medium betwixt all fool and all philosopher. [ Proverb ]

A fool demands much, but he is a greater that gives it. [ Proverb ]

The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool. [ Bayard Taylor ]

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise. [ Bible ]

You give notable counsel, but he is a fool that takes it. [ Proverb ]

If fools should not fool it they shall lose their season. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

God created the coquette as soon as he had made the fool. [ Victor Hugo ]

Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool. [ Tennyson ]

He hath great need of a fool that plays the fool himself. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He who kills the father and leaves the children is a fool. [ Proverb ]

A fool may chance to put something into a wise man's head. [ Proverb ]

When a goose dances, and a fool versifies, there is sport. [ Proverb ]

He is no wise man that cannot play the fool upon occasion. [ Proverb ]

If every fool were to wear a bauble, they would grow dear. [ Proverb ]

Either the hearer or relater of fopperies, must be a fool. [ Proverb ]

If a wise man should never miscarry, the fool would burst. [ Proverb ]

The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat. [ Confucius ]

A fool may make money, but it takes a wise man to spend it. [ Proverb ]

He who was taught only by himself, had a fool for a master. [ Ben Jonson ]

A wise man begins in the end; a fool ends in the beginning. [ Proverb ]

Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. [ Swift ]

A fool may sometimes have talent, but he never has judgment. [ La Roche ]

A fool cannot look, nor stand, nor walk like a man of sense. [ La Bruyere ]

The tell-tale out of school is of all wits the greatest fool. [ Swift ]

In sleep what difference is there between Solomon and a fool? [ Proverb ]

A fool resents good counsel, but a wise man lays it to heart. [ Confucius ]

Wit sometimes helps us to play the fool with more confidence. [ Proverb ]

A good honest man now-a-days is but a better word for a fool. [ Proverb ]

No fool was ever so foolish, but some one thought him clever. [ Proverb ]

A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune. [ Proverb ]

He that is only his own pupil shall have a fool to his tutor. [ Proverb ]

The fool thinks nothing well done except what he does himself.

A merry old fool and a gay apish matron are domestic monsters. [ Proverb ]

There cannot be a more intolerable thing than a fortunate fool. [ Proverb ]

A wise man's thoughts walk within him, but a fool's without him. [ Proverb ]

He is a fool who empties his purse, or store, to fill another's. [ Spanish Proverb ]

It is the nature of man to err, of a fool to persevere in error.

Superstition renders a man a fool, and skepticism makes him mad. [ Proverb ]

A fool knows more in his own house than a wise man in another's. [ Proverb ]

What the fool does at length the wise man does at the beginning. [ Spanish Proverb ]

A fool always finds some one more foolish than he to admire him. [ Boileau ]

Gold causes strange disorders when it falls into a fool s hand. [ Proverb ]

A fool may speer (ask) more questions than a wise man can answer. [ Scotch Proverb ]

He that is well sheltered is a fool if he stir out into the rain. [ Proverb ]

Play with a fool at home, and he will'play with you in the market. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

To be a fool or knave in print, does but bring the truth to light. [ Proverb ]

Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool? [ Locke ]

What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning. [ Italian Proverb ]

Men never play the fool more, than by endeavouring to be otherwise. [ Proverb ]

He must be a thorough fool who can learn nothing from his own folly. [ Hare ]

He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not. [ Seneca ]

Every one is liable to err; none but a fool will persevere in error. [ Cicero ]

Every fool can find faults, that a great many wise men cannot remedy. [ Proverb ]

An ass among apes, (i.e. a fool among people who make a fool of him). [ Proverb ]

Angling is a line with a bait at the one end and a fool at the other. [ Franklin ]

If you be a fool, and I be a fool, there will be no meddling with us. [ Proverb ]

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man. [ William M. Thackeray ]

To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's. [ William Penn ]

Generally nature hangs out a sign of simplicity in the face of a fool. [ Thomas Fuller ]

The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul. [ Theodore Parker ]

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world. [ Feltham ]

A child's service is little, yet he is no little fool that despiseth it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that cheats in small things is a fool, but in great things is a rogue. [ Proverb ]

Every one must wear out one pair of fool's shoes, if he wear out no more. [ German Proverb ]

A fool's heart is in his tongue; but a wise man's tongue is in his heart. [ Quarles ]

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad. [ William Shakespeare ]

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living. [ Steele ]

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, God help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit. [ Congreve ]

A fool may have his coat embroidered, but it will always be a fool's coat. [ Rivarol ]

Surely he is not a fool that hath unwise thoughts, but he that utters them. [ Bishop Hall ]

If you let a fool play with you at home, he will do with you in the market. [ Proverb ]

The tongue of a fool carves a piece of his heart, to all that sit near him. [ Proverb ]

A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart is at his left. [ Bible ]

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking-glass. [ Rabelais ]

A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe. [ Proverb ]

It is a miserable thing for a wise man to be under the government of a fool. [ Proverb ]

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise. [ Lady Montagu ]

Learning in the hand of some is a sceptre, in that of others a fool's bauble. [ Proverb ]

To work a fell revenge a man's a fool, if not instructed in a woman's school. [ Fletcher ]

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still. [ Rivarol ]

He's a blockhead that cannot make two verses, and he's a fool that makes four. [ Proverb ]

He that hath one hog makes him fat, and he that hath one son makes him a fool. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He will lie, sir, with such volubility that you would think truth were a fool. [ William Shakespeare ]

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one. [ Richardson ]

How can the cat help it if the maid is fool enough to leave things in her way) [ Italian Proverb ]

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

He that repents of his own act either is, or was a fool by his own confession. [ Proverb ]

The man who enters his wife's dressing-room is either a philosopher, or a fool. [ Balzac ]

A fool may throw a stone into a well, which a hundred wise men cannot pull out. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest. [ Ovid ]

To discuss an opinion with a fool is like carrying a lantern before a blind man. [ De Gaston ]

I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well. [ Hazlitt ]

The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than a fool from his friends. [ Proverb ]

Nature has sometimes made a fool; but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making. [ Addison ]

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. [ Proverb ]

As yet a child, not yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. [ Pope ]

A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible. [ Colton ]

A philosopher is a fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of when dead. [ D'Alembert ]

Though a coat be never so fine that a fool wears, yet it is still but a fool's coat. [ Proverb ]

The fool of vanity; for her alone he lives, loves, writes, and dies but to be known. [ Canning ]

He that has but one hog makes him fat, and he that has but one son makes him a fool. [ Proverb ]

The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool, when he speaks. [ Proverb ]

'Tis my maxim, he's a fool that marries; but he's a greater that does not marry a fool. [ Wycherly ]

It would be easier to endow a fool with intellect than to persuade him that he had none. [ Babinet ]

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool. [ Rabbi Ben Azai ]

If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out. [ Lessing ]

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping. [ Socrates ]

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own. [ Cicero ]

A man must be a fool, who does not succeed in making a woman believe that which flatters her. [ Balzac ]

Commend a fool for his wit or a knave for his honesty, and he will receive you into his bosom. [ Fielding ]

A fool is happier in thinking well of himself, than a wise man in others thinking well of him. [ Proverb ]

The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian dome outlives in fame the pious fool that raised it. [ Colley Gibber ]

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. [ J. Roux ]

Fond fool! six feet shall serve for all thy store, and he that cares for most shall find no more. [ Bishop Hall ]

Commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosom. [ Fielding ]

Commend a fool for his wit and a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosoms. [ Field ]

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like a hack-horse setting out to gallop. [ Chamfort ]

He who provides for this life, but takes no care for eternity, is wise for a moment, but a fool forever. [ Tillotson ]

There is no greater fool than he who thinks himself wise; no one wiser than he who suspects he is a fool. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

Men are so necessarily fools that it would be being a fool in a higher strain of folly, not to be a fool. [ Pascal ]

He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and always shall be. [ Bailey ]

He who laughs too much hath the nature of a fool, he that laughs not at all hath the nature of an old cat. [ Proverb ]

As riches and favor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity. [ La Bruyere ]

Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

A fool always accuses other people; a partially wise man, himself; a wholly wise man, neither himself nor others. [ Herder ]

Though thou shouldst bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. [ Bible ]

What a fool is he who says to a woman. Will you? Dost not know, simpleton, that they always pretend not to be willing? [ Alfred Bougeart ]

You pity a man who is lame or blind; but you never pity him for being a fool, which is often a much greater misfortune. [ Sydney Smith ]

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. [ Ben Jonson ]

Tomorrow! - it is a period nowhere to be found in all the hoary registers of time, unless perchance in the fool's calendar. [ Colton ]

They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than their head, and think to play the fool with reason. [ Terence ]

Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age. [ Carlyle ]

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already. [ Simms ]

How can you make a fool perceive that he is a fool? Such a personage can no more see his own folly than he can see his own ears. [ Thackeray ]

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness. [ Pascal ]

If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind. [ Buddha ]

O cursed lust of gold; when for thy sake The fool throws up his interest in both worlds, First starved in this, then damn'd in that to come. [ Blair ]

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discover who is a fool than to discover who is a clever man. [ Cato ]

For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to chink himself a respectable man. [ George MacDonald ]

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his neighbors because he hath more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine! [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy. [ Feltham ]

If a traveler does not meet with one who is his better or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool. [ Max Muller ]

Every man's experience of today is that he was a fool yesterday and the day before yesterday. Tomorrow he will most likely be of exactly the same opinion. [ Charles Mackay ]

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise; and therefore those faculties by which the foolish part of men's minds are taken are more potent. [ Bacon ]

The imputation of being a fool is a thing which mankind, of all others, is the most impatient of, it being a blot upon the prime and specific perfection of human nature. [ South ]

The fool maintains an error with the assurance of a man who can never be mistaken: the sensible man defends a truth with the circumspection of a man who may be mistaken. [ De Bruix ]

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. [ Bacon ]

If the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between them and that of the fool; there are infinite reveries and numberless extravagancies pass through both. [ Addison ]

No man is so foolish but he may give another good counsel sometimes, and no man so wise but he may easily err, if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that was taught only by himself had a fool for a master. [ Ben Jonson ]

Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? let wisdom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale, every fool may sail, but wise behavior in a storm commends the wisdom of a pilot; to bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit. [ Quarles ]

If all fools had baubles* we should want fuel. (*The fool or jester carried in his hand a wooden sceptre called a bauble. It was a short stick ornamented at the end with the figure of a fool's head, or with that of a puppet or doll. Jesters were still retained in Herbert's day.) [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory. It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace. [ Quarles ]

fool in Scrabble®

The word fool is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters fool:

FOOL
(33)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word fool

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The 46 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In fool

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fool in Words With Friends™

The word fool is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters fool:

FOOL
(48)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word fool

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The 50 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In fool

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LOO
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LOO
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Words within the letters of fool

2 letter words in fool (1 word)

3 letter words in fool (1 word)

4 letter words in fool (1 word)

fool + 1 blank (5 words)

Word Growth involving fool

Shorter words in fool

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Longer words containing fool

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