Quotes About Fool

She could not bear the thought. She simply could not bear the thought that she might somehow prove to her grandfather that her mother had indeed been a fool and her father had been a damned fool and that she was the damnedest fool of them all.

... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men; depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians; gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

There is no fool to the old fool.

My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

You can learn technological things, you can learn about specific things, but the real problems that people deal with in any subject, existential subjects or romantic subjects, you never learn anything. So you make a fool of yourself when you're 20, you make a fool of yourself at 40, at 60 at 80. The ancient Greeks were dealing with these problems. They screwed up all the time. People do now.

I am not a poor child, Lady Eleanor," Madelyne announced, letting her anger sound in her voice. "Duncan won't marry you. He won't sign the contracts. He'd have to give up his greatest treasure in order to marry you." "And what be that treasure?" Lady Eleanor inquired, her voice mild. "Why, I'm Duncan's greatest treasure. He'd be a fool to give me up," she added. "And even you must know that Duncan is anything but a fool.

Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.

Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool.

God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.

I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.

There is no fool like an educated fool.

My Father always told me that a fool at 40 is a fool for life.

How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

Fool me once, strike one. But fool me twice ... strike three.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

You can't fool the American people - politician trying to fool the American people.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

It's bad enough that you have to take market risk. Only a fool takes on the additional risk of doing yet more damage by failing to diversify properly with his or her nest egg. Avoid the problem-buy a well-run index fund and own the whole market.

When someone's acting for a scene, they can fool the camera. But in everyday life, unless you're watching and censoring yourself every minute, or spending all your time in the company of ladies, what you feel is bound to show in your eyes.

A man who says he feels no fear is either a fool or a liar.

writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing from a writer, conversationally. If a writer has anything witty, profound or quotable to say he doesn't say it. He's no fool. He writes it.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

You either decide to take the easy way out, which means you're only going to disappoint yourself and everybody else, or you take the risk right now of being a fool, which is the only way you'll end up being exhilarated later on when you actually watch the movie.

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come.

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you a constantly growing knowledge of what has been done and what hasn't, what is trite and what is fresh, what works and what lies there dying (or dead) on the page. The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Violence has never prospered, you can't remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!

When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.

Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.

I've been very much intrigued by and impressed with women. But I've never been intimidated. Even if I make a fool of myself, it's better to have tried.

A jester unemployed is nobodys fool.

An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.

The fool inherits, but the wise must get.

Just Me, Just Me Sweet Marie, she loves just me (She also loves Maurice McGhee). No she don't, she loves just me (She also loves Louise Dupree). No she don't, she loves just me (She also loves the willow tree). No she don't, she loves just me! (Poor, poor fool, why can't you see She can love others and still love thee.)

Science is a way for us to not fool ourselves.

He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.