It seems like every second movie you see features the word 'fool' somewhere in the dialogue. Bad guys like to use the word 'fool' when they're getting ready to fight the good guys. Movie characters don't want to look like a fool, be made a fool of, or have someone fool around on them. They don't want fool's gold nor desire to be the fool whose money has soon parted. With all this reference to fools in film, here are the twelve wisest movie quotes that include the word 'fool'.
1) “A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together
in the first place.”
Wall Street (1987) – Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas)
2) "The man with an idea is a fool, until the idea succeeds."
The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985) – Mark Twain (James Whitmore)
3) "I would rather be an optimist and a fool that a pessimist and right."
I.Q. (1994) - Kurt Godel (Lou Jacobi)
4) “It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.”
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) – Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney)
5) “It's better to live as your own man, than as a fool in someone else's dream.”
Destination Moonbeam Alpha (1976) – John Koenig (Martin Landau)
6) "Any fool can steer a ship, sir. It's just knowing where to take it."
The Bounty (1984) - John Adams (Philip Martin Brown)
7) "A jester unemployed is nobody's fool."
The Court Jester (1955) - Hubert Hawkins (Danny Kaye)
8) “Chance is the fool's name for fate.”
The Gay Divorcee (1934) – Guy Holden (Fred Astaire)
9) “There's a time when a man needs to fight and a time when he needs to accept
that his destiny's lost, the ship has sailed and that only a fool will continue. The
truth is I've always been a fool.”
Big Fish (2003) – Ed Bloom (Ewan McGregor)
10) "I have this awful paranoid thought that feminism was mostly invented by men
so that they could fool around a little more."
Before Sunrise (1995) - Celine (Julie Delpy)
11) “Never try to fool children. They expect nothing and therefore see everything.”
Fairy Tale: A True Story (1997) – Harry Houdini (Harvey Keitel)
12) "I wasn't going to fool around out here because I've got these three girls I'm
engaged to back home."
M.A.S.H (1970) - Walter 'Painless' Waldowski (John Schuck)
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