Foolishness Quotations

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool

He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?

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.

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

One fool at least in every married couple.

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.

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.

No one's quite sure if he's a genius or a fool, the difference sometimes seems so close. But I think he knows exactly what he's doing.

RHADOMANCER, n. One who uses a divining-rod in prospecting for precious metals in the pocket of a fool.

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.

Next week we will be millionaires (Only Fools and Horses)

New homes sales sprang back to life like a zombie in a cheap horror flick. And like that zombie, housing really is dead. Don't let all that twitching fool you.

I don't know him, but ... he'd definitely make our team a lot better. I'd be a fool not to say that. A guy like that would make everybody around him better.

I don't know why he ran from the car, I know we can all speculate . . . but he was a fool, he's quit the captaincy, he's paid a price . . . . He's a fool because it's not a good image for a captain of a football club. But he's been dealt with by the club under the code of conduct.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it's lovely to be silly at the right moment

Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: it's good to be silly at the right moment. (Odes, bk. 4, no. 12, l. 27)

Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.

He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.

I'd be a fool if I said I didn't look at the clock every couple of seconds.

I'd be a fool if I said I wasn't looking at the clock every couple of seconds. But we played really hard. I was just excited to be in this position. Obviously it hurts to lose, we're all sore losers. But they have five NBA players on their team, they were bigger than us at every spot.

I'd be a fool to say I wasn't looking at the clock every couple seconds.

I'd be a fool to say 'No, we weren't happy' to beat somebody we've lost to seven straight times since I've been here.

I'd be a fool to say we don't miss them.

But a person's a fool if they think you can take a serious punt on when that exactly will happen.

I have a lot of plans for the year and I don't want to jeopardize those by doing something foolish in one day of play.

He who knows he who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child, teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep, wake him. He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise, follow him.

He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child, teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep, wake him. He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise, follow him.

I'm a success inasmuch that I enjoy my life, which is an enormous blessing and that doesn't depend on commercial success (though I wouldn't be such a fool as to deny that it helps).

His private affair is a private matter. Clearly he looks a fool but our job in opposition is to call him to account on his ministerial record.

There is no fool who has not his own kind of sense

He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.

He doesn't fool around out there, does he? He gets the ball and throws it. This guy learned how to put different pressure points on the ball to make the ball move. This guy is the best I've ever seen.

I was a fool three years ago. One is always a fool three years ago.

I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.

Penalties set up a touchdown for them and took away scoring opportunities from us. We had some foolish penalties and some guys got one who hadn't had one in two years.

I might be a different kind of fool, but I ain't gonna be the same fool twice.

I think it would be foolish to think we are the only life forms in this universe.

It is impossible for the fools to tread the path of learned ones.

It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.

I tell you, as one who has studied the whole situation, I don't think Hitler is a fool - he is not going to challenge the British Empire

I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

I think to ignore that piece of work is foolish on any number of levels, ... I think it's a tragic mistake for anybody who really wants to think seriously about those issues - about the issues of race relations in the United States - and how we as a society deal with any kind of contentious issue. ...If you're concerned about race relations issues in the United States today to ignore 'Birth of a Nation' is to put aside a tool that can tell you a lot.

I thought the game was over. I'm a complete idiot. I was jumping up and down like a fool out there. I thought Gee's basket won the game for us.

True fops help nature's work, and go to school - to file and finish God Almighty's fool

Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.

Waist-deep in the Big Muddy, and the big fool said to push on.

You listen to everybody, but Shawn played the game. You'd be a fool if you didn't listen to him.

We had to win or we would have headed home looking like fools.

We had to win. We couldn't go back to Boston looking like a bunch of fools.

Well, as I characterize most of them, they're all gimmicks, gimmicks to fool the taxpaying public that they're going to get some kind of tax relief.

That was a thing we were getting away from when the equity markets were on a tear. Everybody thought you were a fool to get into anything else.

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

This problem is exploding in the face of the government. They have politicized it so much they are making fools of themselves. There's the image of Paris burning and that is very, very bad.

That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness.

The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.

The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness

Yes, but it's my life has been wasted, And I have been the fool, To let this manufacturer use my body for a tool, I can ride home in the evening, Staring at my hands, Swearing by my sorrow that a young girl, Ought to stand a better chance, So may I w

Yes, for most people the spring stats can fool you. But watching the way he's throwing the ball, he's backed off and pitched, not thrown. He's more letting the pitches work for him and letting the ball move for him and locating. He's not trying to overthrow or overpower hitters, but just make his pitches and have them put the ball in play.

Don't let them fool you that we have a deal. We don't. We're not going to have a rush job here and vote for that much of a bill that we haven't read,

Don't use the conduct of a fool as a precedent

Even tho' thrice again/ The red fool-fury of the Seine/ Should pile her barricades with dead.

There are reasons why people pay for high growth, and they typically overpay. It's a fool's game, and it keeps going until it doesn't keep going.

There are several issues on which Washington should not fool itself - a Merkel government would take the same stance on (the) Kyoto (Protocol on global warming) and the environment as well on as the International Criminal Court.

The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks

The right answer to a fool is silence

You had to be a fool not to realize that.

BONDSMAN, n. A fool who, having property of his own, undertakes to become responsible for that entrusted to another to a third. Philippe of Orleans wishing to appoint one of his favorites, a dissolute nobleman, to a high office, asked him what security he would be able to give. ""I need no bondsmen,"" he replied, ""for I can give you my word of honor."" ""And pray what may be the value of that?"" inquired the amused Regent. ""Monsieur, it is worth its weight in gold.

RASCAL, n. A fool considered under another aspect.

When someone demands blind obedience, you'd be a fool not to peek

Spending all that money for a one-day hit is a fool's errand. If you're smart, you use your Super Bowl presence to feed your business through the rest of the year.

As crazy as hauling timber into the woods.

Always remember, money isn't everything -- but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.

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Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. (Proverbs 17:28)

This is a 'fool me once' kind of situation. We're not going to be fooled again.

A fool, but an honest fool, you remain, Peregrin Took. Wiser ones migth have done worse in such a pass. But mark this! You have been saved, and all your friends too, mainly by good fortune, as it is called.

A fool is like the big drum that beats fast but does not realize its hollowness

A fool tries to shut others' mouth instead of listens to his own heart.

In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool.

I'm not a fool. I know the size difference of the school, but the reality is when I walked in the gym and had three players, I almost went home and cried. You know, what did I get myself into?

I'm not as smart as CJ. I love playing her because I can fool people into believing I'm incredibly bright and witty,

I may be wrong, and you might fool me, but I just feel like there's a slight difference in their body motion, ... But they are awfully similar.

If silence be good for the wise, how much better for fools

I'm tired of saying, "How wonderful you are!" to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it.

I'm a damned fool. I wanted to commit suicide

If you own your own home free and clear, people will often refer to you as a fool. All that money sitting there, doing nothing.

If we've got a team down, we've got to keep them down. We can't play with them, we can't fool with them. All our losses probably this year, we had a team down 15 or 16 points. So when we've got them down, we've got to keep a foot on the pedal.

If you follow a fool, you're a fool yourself

I'm not ready, so I'm not going to go out there and make a fool of myself.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way

Everyone has his foolishness and mostly those are the most interesting things a person has.