Quotes About Fool

A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.

Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.

Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art." Feste: "But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool.

The indispensability of reason does not imply that individual people are always rational or are unswayed by passion and illusion. It only means that people are capable of reason, and that a community of people who choose to perfect this faculty and to exercise it openly and fairly can collectively reason their way to sounder conclusions in the long run. As Lincoln observed, you can fool all of the people some of the time, and you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.

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.

A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.

Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking about? If money is so evil, shouldn't it be, 'A wise man and his money are soon parted'? And another thing, how does a fool get money in the first place? I know some fools who have a lot of money, but they won't tell me how they got it, and I won't tell them.

If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

I love you too, sweet sister. But you're a fool. A beautiful golden fool.

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

Remember when we met? Before you left, you said you were going to make a fool of yourself over me. That's still what you're worried about. That you'll find yourself doing things you never dreamed of doing, things you laughed at in others, and you'll make a fool of yourself.

But for the wise, it says in the Bible: when a wise man hears wisdom, he reacts. When a fool hears it, his acts are folly. If you wanna be a fool, help yourself, it's not my problem.

A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.

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

When you fool a fool you strike a blow for intelligence.

Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

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

My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion.

A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter.

"The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool." Our quote of the day is, from of all people, the Marquis de Sade, the most infamous writer in all of French literature. And by the way, if you recognized that quote, you're sick.

I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

A fool and his words are soon parted.

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

It`s human nature to be optimistic. Any fool can enter a market, it takes talent to exit consistently and profitably.

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

Desire is what leads you through life until the time comes when you desire a higher life. So do not be ashamed that you want so much, yet at the same time do not fool yourself into thinking that what you want today will be enough tomorrow.

Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.

Anyone who feels like a fool has made a good beginning.

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

One of the benefits of being a mature well-educated woman is that you're not afraid of expletives. And you have no fear to put a fool in his place. That's the power of language and experience. You can learn a lot from Shakespeare.

You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

It's a fool boy who mocks a giant, and a mad world when a cripple has to defend him.

Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?

There are two kinds of people: one who goes on thinking about the future, not bothering about the present at all. That future is not going to come, that future is just a fool's imagination. I don't think about the future. I am a totally different kind of person. I don't think about the future at all, it is irrelevant.

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!

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

Dear Mia, What can I say? I don't know all that much about romance novels, but I think you must be the Stephen King of the genre. Your book is hot. Thanks for letting me read it. Anyone who doesn't want to publish it is a fool. Anyway, since I know it's your birthday, and I also know you never remember to back anything up, here's a little something I made for you. It would be a shame if Ransom My Heart got lost before it ever saw the light of day because your hard drive crashed. See you tonight. Love, Michael

I've got a hangover!" "No, you hit your head on the floor," Sophie said. Howl rose up on his hands and knees with a scramble. "I can't stay," he said. "I've got to rescue that fool Sophie." "I'm here!" Sophie shook his shoulder. "But so is Mis Angorian! Get up and do something about her!

I've got cheekier with age. You can get away with murder when you're 71 years old. People just think I'm a silly old fool.

If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.

That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.

Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.

Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.