Fools Quotations | Page 2

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.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Tis a gross error held in schools, That Fortune always favors fools

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.

Wise men argue causes, and fools decide them.

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

Thou at first prompting of what I call God,/ And fools call Nature, didst hear, comprehend,/ Accept the obligation laid on thee.

We were where we needed to be at the half, but it's like it's fools gold when you come in here and feel that way. They really just worked the clock and took shots. We had them missing shots and they just went and got them.

We can't look past anybody, ... I mean obviously we'd be fools to even think of it. We had the team in here this morning at 6 o'clock, we cleaned up the tape and I think we got their attention about playing better and winning the game.

We can't look past anybody. I mean, obviously we'd be fools to even think of it. We had the team in here this morning at 6 o'clock, we cleaned up the tape and I think we got their attention about playing better and winning the game.

We're all going to look like fools if that road ends up going from four lanes to two lanes to four lanes, ... I wish we could get more things, but in my heart I don't think we're going to get any more.

Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness

We start as fools and become wise through experience

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 give cherries to pigs or advice to fools

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.

And to be perfectly blunt, I think only fools would bet the lives of other men's sons and daughters on their own arrogance and call this force a cakewalk or a speed bump or something that you can dismiss.

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

The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others

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.

People gather and hoard their possessions, and give nothing to anyone else - the poor fools think that everything is theirs.

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

T would make one scratch where It does not itch, to see fools live poor to die rich

We'd be fools not to worry about large companies coming into our space.

Once we killed off my penalties, that gave us a lot of momentum. It's something I shouldn't have done, but I had such good position on St. Louis, there's no way I touched him. Maybe it's not the referee's fault, (St. Louis) dives and fools the referee. We were getting a lot of penalties and I just lost it.

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.

You've got your passion. You've got your pride.But don't you know that only fools are satisfied?Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.

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.

Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side.

Our customers have come to expect a high level of service from the Motley Fool.

Are we the fools for being surprised that a silence could end with no sound?

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 Christmas, I presented my wife with a new Mac mini... I am, as you might know, one of the more prominent Windows-based writers on the Web. This simple fact makes the notion that I'd buy a Mac for my wife seems like an April Fools joke, I know. But the truth is, I've owned one or more Macs since summer 2005, and I'm a big fan of Mac OS X, albeit one who is perhaps more honest about the system's shortcomings than the typical Mac fanatic. That said, Apple's computer systems are viable for a wide range of users, including graphic artists, photographers, and other creative types. And a truly simple system like the Mac mini is perfect for the mass market, those people who simply need email, Web access, and word processing.

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.

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

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

I'm sure we looked like fools down there, ... but if I had to do it all over again, I would have aimed at the same target.

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

Innovators and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at the beginning (and very often at the end) of their careers.

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.

In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools

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

No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women

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.

A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

Then sing as Martin Luther sang:"Who loves not wine, woman, and song,He is a fool his whole life long!

Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.

don't be a fool, son. We didn't even have a horse.

So build a statue and oh build it high so the world can see then inscribe 'the world's greatest fool' and name it after me.

They are good, they are bad,They are weak, they are strong,They are wise, they are foolish---so am I.

They can feel very sure that they are not going to make fools of themselves in front of others. Any questions they want to ask they can, through the learning advisors we have here, or through posting questions on the Web site, but at the end of the day there will always be a role for face-to-face learning

Clive is here to learn. He is not a fool and he knows he is not going to walk straight into management with no experience - he wouldn't last five minutes,

If there were no fools, how would we recognize the wise

In the True Court, they lie; the blind fools strike their own heads with their own hands.

Because that would be foolish politically, and I think there's a lot of practicality going on.

I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Chasing down leaks is a favorite sport in Washington. Generally, it's a fool's errand,

Homo sapiens! Yuck! You contemporary fools laugh at religious and political lies spewed by sociopaths, lies that tether you forever to poverty and mediocrity. Yet, when your ears come upon the truth, the facts of life, you hide your faces and cry, not able to look at your own creations and destiny. You rush off to what isn't instead of what? is. I'm glad I haven't yet evolved and embrace your ways. Signed, Homo Erectus.

He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave

I don't know if you ever fool anyone, but you give them different wrinkles and you give them things that may look like something you've run before and you actually run something different out of it, ... It still comes down to executing and going out and blocking and tackling and running a route and throwing and guys making plays.

Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools.

They called me a fool when I said this side could challenge for the title. Now they can think again. This is the best Roma side I've been in.

Any fool can cause a strike. But no fool can resolve one.

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot defend themselves or run away. And few destroyers of trees ever plant any; nor can planting avail much toward restoring our grand aboriginal giants. It took more than three thousand years to make some of the oldest of the Sequoias, trees that are still standing in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing in the mighty forests of the Sierra.

Anybody who writes us off now is a fool.

The fool has his answer on the tip of his tongue

The foolish moments of the head are often the most wonderful times of the heart.

The fools take pride in themselves, and are ruined in birth and death.

The devotee keeps his Beloved clasped tightly to his heart. The fools perform devotional worship by showing off; they dance and dance and jump all around, but they only suffer in terrible pain.

You will tire of your foolishness because I love you and though not completely aware of it, you did say Yes .

The characters make fools of themselves repeatedly, and show how crazy we all act when we try to pursue eternal youth.

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

The unfortunate the fools are those men who, for some reason best known to themselves, probably on account of their exaggerated estimation of what is to be lost in the process would like to stop it. The privileged ones the wise are those few who, being fully aware of the increasing worthlessness of present-day mankind and of its much-applauded progress, know how little there is to be lost in the coming crash and look forward to it with joyous expectation as to the necessary condition of a new beginning a new Golden Age, sunlit crest of the next long drawn downward wave upon the surface of the endless Ocean of Life.

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool. College examinations notwithstanding, it takes a very smart fella to say "I don't know the answer!

The man who talks of an unalterable law is probably an unalterable fool

Ah God! the petty fools of rhyme/ That shriek and sweat in pigmy wars.

You'd ask for specific things and he'd basically try to fool you.