Fool Quotes by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Adolf Hitler, J. D. Salinger, Carl Van Vechten, William Hazlitt, B.K.S. Iyengar and many others.
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.
If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools.
SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect.
Even a fool gets to be young once.
Had the WWE fights were artificial and pre-scripted, there would have been no need for wrestlers like The Great Khali and The Undertaker. You cannot fool thousands of people crammed into a stadium and sitting four to five feet away from you in the ring.
Concentrate and think upon the problem in mind until a satisfactory conclusion is reached, and then finally go ahead. If you have made a mistake, all right. Never find fault with a man because he has made a mistake. It is only a fool that makes the same mistake the second time.
I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows who’ve had success, to prove to audiences that you don’t have to be a fool to become successful.
Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.
Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or someone with a vitamin deficiency.
When I make a fool out of myself or when I don’t take myself seriously, I’m in a comfortable spot where I don’t need to be reasonable. There’s no reason to be reasonable. This is what I want to do and where I have full control. I determine what I want to do.
For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think himself a respectable man.
More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they’ve got to go about it themselves – they can’t depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what’s going on all over the world.
Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.
God cannot save them from fools.
It’s very easy to fool yourself that you’re working, you know, when you’re really not working very hard. I mean, I’m very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go – quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.
[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.
Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
A fool is one whom simpletons believe to be a man on merit.
[Fr., Un fat celui que les sots croient un homme de merite.]
[Fr., Un fat celui que les sots croient un homme de merite.]
When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn’t better constructed for a fool.
How many fools does it take to make up a public?
and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter
Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.
He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man – Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool – Shun Him
You can say any fool thing to a dog and the dog will just give you this look that says, ‘My GOSH, you’re RIGHT! I NEVER would’ve thought of that!
I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.
There’s lots of law these days, but not much justice. Celebrities murder their wives and go free. A mother kills her children, and the news people on TV say she’s the victim and want you to send money to her lawyers. When everything’s upside down like this, what fool just sits back and thinks justice will prevail?
More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they’ve got to go about it themselves – they can’t depend on a particular person, ie me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what’s going on all over the world.
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.
The world is not made of countries and outsiders. We are all just humans, and most of us fools and all of us longing for more than we have, to know more than we know–and yet even that is not enough, for if we knew everything we would only be disappointed that there was not one more secret to uncover.
If there is any truth to the old proverb that “one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client,” the Court now bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself.
I’m a man of a certain age – old enough to have been every kind of fool- and I find to my surprise that the only counsel I have to pass on is this: Never let your name be found in a dead man’s trousers.
A fool does not see the same trees a wise man sees.
You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.
The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.
Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic
A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.
Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds.
A fool must now and then be right, by chance
I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you’re sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they’re imagining the same as you.
Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don’t know what that method is, I implore you to get the book ‘Rules for Radicals,’ by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods.
Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool.
The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious.
You’ve got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.
Why not make an end of it all?… My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings…. What is death?… A very small matter,when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. – The Great Gatsby.
One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.
No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool.
I always knew I was an excellent liar; I just didn’t know that I had it in me to fool myself.
I don’t think I’m complicated at all. I’m not political, and I’m not trying to be diplomatic. I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings, and I don’t say bad things about people. There is no agenda. There’s no trying to fool somebody.
Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied.
I never, ever, saw the evil Steve Jobs. He was always the most well-mannered and respectful guy I knew. And we got to be pretty good friends. He didn’t suffer fools gladly. I guess he didn’t think I was a fool.
Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.
I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself.
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and the other half can’t find it.
As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon….This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred scripture tells us [Joshua 10:13]that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.
What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.
A cunning woman is a knavish fool.
The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence… also the damnest fool.
Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.
What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
In idle wishes, fools supinely stay. Be there a will and wisdom finds a way.
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
‘Cause your love got the best of me, and baby you’re making a fool of me. You got me sprung and i don’t care who sees, ’cause baby you got me so crazy.
The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
If you focus too much on the fools, you will eventually become one.
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Men are fools to invest in real estate.
The fool learns by suffering.
A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.
It’s a long climb up Fools’ Hill.
Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.
It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.
Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick in the belly or hurt in the heart. It makes everything brighter and sharper, or it blurs all the edges. It makes you feel like a king or a fool. Every way love can hit you, it’s hit me when it comes to you.
Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others look like fools.
Anyone can be sentimental about the nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. But Easter is the main event; if you don’t believe in the resurrection, you’re not a believer.” “If you don’t believe in Easter,” Owen Meany said. “Don’t kid yourself—Don’t call yourself a Christian.
The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: ‘Qu’est que ca prouve?’ was not such a fool as he has been generally made out. No one has ever been able to explain why the Doric temple of Paestum is more beautiful than a glass of cold beer except by bringing in considerations that have nothing to do with beauty.
He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
The fool’s crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man’s crime is the crime that is not found out.
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
It took me a long time to understand the relationship between ideas and between objective facts. But after I clearly understood this relationship, I didn’t fool around with other wild ideas. That is one of the main reasons why I just make my scheme as simple as possible.
And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.
Only fools pity survivors their scars and you should never kowtow to fools
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Mankind, from Adam, have been women’s fools;
Women, from Eve, have been the devil‘s tools:
Heaven might have spar’d one torment when we fell;
Not left us women, or not threatened hell.
Women, from Eve, have been the devil‘s tools:
Heaven might have spar’d one torment when we fell;
Not left us women, or not threatened hell.
If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not.
The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
It’s rather nice to think that a song such as ‘What Kind of Fool Am I?’ is a standard that will be around for many, many years.
One fool at least in every married couple.
…and like a fool who will never see the truth
I keep thinking something’s gonna change
There’s a danger in loving somebody too much
And it’s sad when you know it’s your heart they can’t touch
There’s a reason why people don’t stay who they are
Baby sometimes love‘s just ain’t enough
I keep thinking something’s gonna change
There’s a danger in loving somebody too much
And it’s sad when you know it’s your heart they can’t touch
There’s a reason why people don’t stay who they are
Baby sometimes love‘s just ain’t enough
Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.
You bloody silly fool!
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those responsible for their affairs are themselves dwelling in a fool’s paradise.
You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.
Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
Some of the best people i know are fools’, Evanelle said. ‘The strongest people I know.
A good businessman never makes a contract unless he’s sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
It`s human nature to be optimistic. Any fool can enter a market, it takes talent to exit consistently and profitably.
Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool.
A fool is wise in his eyes.
I am a fool. That is well known.
She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference.
Just as words have two functions – information and creation – so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality… is conscious and alert… The lower personality is a… perfect fool, but without it there is no literature.
