Best 1525 quotes in «fool quotes» category

The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.

There are as many fools at a university as anywhere? But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampthe stamp of university training, if you like. It is trained folly.

There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere earthly fire, we none the less prize and value, and seek for the genuine fire which comes from the altar of the Lord.

There are enough fools in Washington to destroy the country without any help from Muslim terrorists.

There are lots of cycles to markets - boom and bust - and also in perceptions of people. The conventional wisdom of Steve Case as genius or fool was highly cyclical. The truth was always in the middle.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.

There are some very good people in television, but a lot of fools running it.

There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.

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

There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust.

There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

There is always Joker to see through the delusion. Generation succeeds generation, but there is a fool walking the earth who is never ravaged by time.

There is no fool like an educated fool.

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a fool. He who propagates god is a scoundrel. He who worships god is a barbarian.

There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.

There is no medicine to cure a fool!

There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time. Even a natural fool has to work at it.

There is no right and wrong, and precepts are for fools. Every thing is just as it is! And we must experience things without condemning them, because if we condemn them, then we are becoming too involved.

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 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 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'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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The warrior acts, the fool reacts.

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.