Best 1525 quotes in «fool quotes» category

There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.

There's an expression in Yiddish, which is "der gelernte naar" - a "learned fool." You can know a great deal, you can have a Ph.D., and you can still be a total idiot.

There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.

There's no exception to the rule, yes, everybody's somebody's fool.

There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he who worships him is a barbarian.

There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.

There's one fool at least in every married couple.

There's something I'm afraid to say to you too early, but I'd be a fool to wait too late.

There's this old line the wise folks in Washington have that "it's not the crime, but the cover-up." But only fools believe that. It's always about the crime. The whole point of the cover-up is that a full revelation of the underlying crime is not survivable.

The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human, It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman.

The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.

The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]

The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge

The shame of fools conceals their open wounds. [Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.]

The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal; work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself.

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

The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.

The warrior acts, the fool reacts.

The threat of nuclear warfare is very, very low. Trump is no fool, and he sees the world as a globalized world.

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

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.

The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep on making fools of themselves, formulating political opinions when they might not be as informed as they might be, but that they retreat and leave politics to the professionals.

The wedding vows are a license to be a complete jerk, with full knowledge that the person you married has agreed, no matter how large a horse's ass you are, to stay by your side until death. A fool could tell you this is a bad deal.

The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.

The Truth is in the prolouge. Death to the romantic fool., the expert in solitary confinement.

The way you make something happen is to do something that a fool could screw up.

The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.

The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.

The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. He does it to give himself faith hope and courage. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that I am sure is why he does it.

The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.

They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.

They call me deranged. The hope is that they are right! It is of no greater or lesser import for yet another fool to wander this Earth. But if I am right and science is wrong, then may the Lord God have mercy on mankind!

They asked me to go in front of the Reagans. I'm not used to going in front of President Reagan, so we went out behind the Bushes.

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

The zombies were like Canadians, in that they looked enough like real people at first, to fool you.

They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others.

The zeal of fools offends at any time.

They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.

Think of yourself as an insensitive, nitpicking, irritable fool to use the product.

Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.

Thirty millions, mostly fools.

This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.

This is love that surrounds, only a fool without wisdom can see. Blind as I am in your eyes, my lady of dreams.

This is one of theprimary mechanisms whereby, if a fool says the sun is shining, we do notcorrectly discard this as irrelevant nonevidence, but rather find ourselvesimpelled to say that it must be dark outside.

Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.