Fools Quotations | Page 3

You'd be a fool to buy the most expensive house on the block and then put money in it.

These fools start dancing at six, and they'll dance until you turn the music off at 2 a.m..

...and now April's ruling April's looming April's fooling, around, in yet another round, for this year's ruling April fool.

For God's sake, give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me, ... I don't think people are going to fall for that one again.

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

Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools

Fools and bairns should never see half-done work.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence

Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings / I bore this wren till I was tired with soaring, / And now he mounts above me.

It's the end-of-the-year foolishness time, where you can run it up and run it down $10 on no news. I think it's a sell. But the downside in gold is limited.

It's not easy to perform in front of your teammates and make a fool out of yourself.

Anyone who says that someone is a sure bet for an Oscar is a fool. There's no such thing as a sure thing, least of all in a five-way vote.

Anyone who takes him to be a fool will be very sorry.

When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisitesto be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurancethere are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that.

The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public?

It's for a great cause, making fools of ourselves. Anything for the kids.

This looks like another attempt by the king to fool the people. It is a desperate attempt to save the regime.

This market is going to fool the greatest number of people by doing what it's not supposed to do.

I don't want to fool anyone, we should win and it should be a strong victory. But we have to be very serious about it.

I certainly wouldn't have arm-wrestled him and made a fool of myself.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

He ran such a good route, that when the back fell down I was just trying to put it on him so he could make a play. When a guy runs a route that well and fools a defense so well, it's nice to see.

Happiness is the shadow of things past, Wich fools still take for that which is to be!

Today is April 1, April Fools' Day, a day that people try to fool their friends and relatives. Don't confuse that with April 15, when people try to fool the IRS.

There is no fool like an educated fool...

Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Anybody who claims to be excited for April Fools' Day is probably a sociopath.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.

Life with fools consists in drinking; with the wise man, thinking.

I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence

Learn of the skilful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

Men have become the fools of their tools

Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites.

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool;And time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use.

But a fool must follow his natural bent / (Even as you and I!).

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enought to be honest

There are no fools so troublesome as those that have wit.

We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.

Tis hard if all is false that I advance, A fool must now and then be right, by chance

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death

April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.

Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage -- the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a clever woman to manage a fool

The selfish smiling fool, and the sullen frowning fool, shall be both thought wise, that they may be a rod.

The world has been made by fools that men should live in it

Of learned Fools I have seen ten times ten, Of unlearned wise men I have seen a hundred

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.

One half the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all

So true a fool is love that in your will,Though you do anything, he thinks no ill.

No workman without tools,/ Nor Lawyer without Fools,/ Can live by their Rules.

So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge: / He says but little, and that little said / Owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead. / His wit invites you by his looks to come, / But when you knock, it never is at home.

In idle wishes fools supinely stay;Be there a will, -- and wisdom finds a way.

The best blood will sometimes get into a fool or a mosquito

I have observed, that in comedy, the best actor plays the part of the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the hero, or fine gentleman. So, in this farce of life, wise men pass their time in mirth, whilst fools only are serious.

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.

Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart

... the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools know it.

the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools know it.

. . . you know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only escapes by transformation.

The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When th

Even the gods love jokes.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united

Ever since Follies have pleas'd, Fools have been able to divert

Great Men & Fools do often me InspireBut the Greater Fool the Greater Liar.

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four..

Art is the proper task of life.

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

The learned fool writes nonsense in better language that the unlearned - but it's still nonsense.

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

And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.