Quotes About Fool

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

Perhaps there is a reason that there is no fool piece on the chessboard. What action, a fool? What strategy, a fool? What use, a fool? Ah, but a fool resides in a deck of cards, a joker, sometimes two. Of no worth, of course. No real purpose. The appearance of a trump, but none of the power: Simply an instrument of chance. Only a dealer may give value to the joker.

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.

... 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 thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.

You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.

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.

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.

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

This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can take all the notes you want on the technical data, anything you forget you can look up again, but this must be engraved on your hearts in letters of fire. There is nothing, nothing, nothing, more important to me in the men and women I train than their absolute personal integrity. Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool metal. That’s all.

Warren Buffett is fond of saying that any player unaware of the fool in the market probably is the fool in the market.

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.

The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

To love a fool is a misfortune, but does not make one a fool.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second.

In war the first principle is to disobey orders. Any fool can obey orders!

I’m not a cuckoo, either. I’m a fool is what.

An expert is a damn fool a long way from home.

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 warrior acts, the fool reacts.

It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.

What we define as a bubble is any kind of debt-fueled asset inflation where the cash flow generated by the asset itself - a rental property, office building, condo - does not cover the debt incurred to buy the asset. So you depend on a greater fool, if you will, to come in and buy at a higher price.

There isn't any question that Hollywood is profit driven. Anybody that thinks it isn't is a fool. It's a business. Hollywood was never philanthropy. The only purpose it had was making money; the only purpose it still has is to make money.

since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry --the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids' flutter which says we are for eachother: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

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

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

The biggest fool may come out with a bit of sense when you least expect it.

The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.

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

No one but a fool is always right.

Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don't think so. Don't condemn them. Any fool can do that. Try to understand them. Only wise, tolerant, exceptional people even try to do that.

You see I'm such a fool that I'm never afraid of appearing foolish.

A fool does not see the same trees a wise man sees.

He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will.

A rogue is a roundabout fool.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

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

They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much

The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat.

But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,-- Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

All that serves labor serves the Nation. All ^ that harms labor is treason to America. No line can be drawn between these two. If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.