Fool Quotations | Page 2

The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.

No one but a fool is always right.

When a woman gets to 30, you ask her about having kids. I don't mind - all my friends are settled with kids, so I can understand people asking, and I even get it from relatives, but I'd be a fool to miss these work opportunities. And there's no time limit. One day I'll find my prince, but at the minute, I'm enjoying kissing a few frogs.

I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we could fool around, and drama was it because we'd do improvs, beating each other up. They left a year later, and I stayed in and got a knack for it, and enjoyed the whole process.

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.

The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly

Anybody who can drive and doesn't come out of it a rich man is a fool.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

I am comfortable playing the fool, I think.

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

You've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it goin' on.

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment

I wouldn't know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago.

I made it real clear to the business community - if your plan for innovation is to trick people, is to fool them, is not to tell them the truth about the price, then you're right: I'm going to be right in the way.

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.

There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written

Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.

Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

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

A fool must now and then be right, by chance

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.

You never really see me acting a fool on TV.

I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

If you have a relative who's lost interest in everything and doesn't get out of bed, who doesn't care for things they used to, can't imagine anything that would give them any pleasure, don't fool around with it; get therapy, get help, get medication if that's right for you, or talk therapy, or something.

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.

Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.

To marry a fool is to be no fool.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

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

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

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.

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.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.

If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, I love to fool you a third time. And just when you think it's all over, I have what I call that Carrie hand-out-of-the-grave moment. Just when you think it's all over, I'm going to hit you with just one more. I can't help myself.

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

Personally, I would be resistant to that and I believe that in listening to my colleagues on the committee, there doesn't seem to be a lot of momentum in that direction. I think that over the last two years there is a certain magic that has evolved over the course of this tournament, and I wouldn't want to fool around with that in the short term in regards to expanding the field in any way.

Nobody can describe a fool to the life, without much patient self-inspection

I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.

When I left school I went on trip around the world-I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.

Somebody invariably asks a question that I can't answer. That pushes me to learn something else about bass fishing. Every year I'm amazed at the new techniques bass pros come up with to fool fish. We're really pushing the envelope on fishing skills.

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Only a fool would subject themselves to questioning by seven investigators as some sort of publicity stunt.

No one should fool anyone that this is going to happen overnight ... because the health system is so complex.

Nothing is 100 percent fool proof. We've tested it in simulations, but until you get the real thing you don't know for sure.

Nobody's taught me. I read ... some poker book I checked out of the library. I read about it so I'd have some idea of the rules of the game, so I wouldn't make a fool out of myself.

Neither give cherries to pigs nor advice to a fool