“Only a fool is not afraid.”

“I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.”

Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist

“Only a fool can't be fooled.”

Orson Scott Card Songmaster

“Only a fool has no regrets and I'm not a fool.”

George Galloway (1954) British politician, broadcaster, and writer

“He that hath truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because fo other mens's opinions.”

Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) English trader, writer and journalist

“Only fool! Only poet!
Merely speaking colorfully,
From fools' masks shouting colorfully,
Climbing about on deceptive word-bridges,
On misleading rainbows,
Between false heavens
Rambling, lurking —
Only fool! Only poet!”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Dionysian-Dithyrambs

“Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise — when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.”

Jessamyn West (1902–1984) American author

“Only fools get to join.”

Gregory Benford book Timescape

“Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?”

Orhan Pamuk (1952) Turkish novelist, screenwriter, and Nobel Prize in Literature recipient

“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity