“I may be a fool, but I intend to be a live fool.”

“I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.”

“I may be a fool, but I'm not a f**ker.”

“I fool you. I fool everyone.”

“You may be an idiot but I don't think you're a fool.”

“Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool,
But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every fool is not a poet.”

“I don't hate fools, I pity them! (I pity the fool)”

“when a fool fails he says I was unlucky, when a wise man fails he says what a fool I had been. Song "If I was a Cat" live version.”

“This is a history, in that it intends to describe what happened and suggest why. … I may have fooled around with a few facts. But I served as witness until as close to the end as anyone could have … and so there is not so much art in this as to make it irrelevant.”

“I see a woman may be made a fool,
If she had not a spirit to resist.”