Best 1525 quotes in «fool quotes» category

A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.

As long as you're willing to be called a fool, you can create anything, do anything, be anything.

As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain hidden deep in Emily’s nature—the strain of the gypsy and the poet, the genius and the fool.

As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.

As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it; those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.

As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.

As we at all times criticise the Premier for his management of home affairs, call Mr Butler a fool for his Budget, find fault with Beecham's conducting, or Gielgud's performance, can we not, sometimes, say that our cricketers are not quite so brilliant as usual?

At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.

Baby I'm a fool who thinks it's cool to fall in love

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others.

Battles I lose none I make crews run I get fools done, got ten fingers but only use one

A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.

Being a fool for God was not merely alright but liberating.

Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.

Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.

Better be a foole then a knave. [Better be a fool than a knave.]

Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.

Beauty,’ Brimstone had scoffed once. ‘Humans are fools for it. As helpless as moths who hurl themselves at fire.

Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.

Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.

beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.

Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.

Busy old fool, unruly Sophie

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Busy opinion is an idle fool.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

But Anne, do you love him?" I asked curiously. The curve of her hood hid all but the corner of her smile. "I am a fool to own it, but I am in a fever for his touch.

... but any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life.

But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,-- Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.

But only a fool sails into combat with nature

But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.

But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.

But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.

But what if we are dealing with fools?

But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.

By the time it becomes obvious that a technology will have truly disruptive impact, it is often too late to take action. This is one reason why we are such advocates of using theory to try to analyze industry change. Conclusive evidence that proves that a company needs to take action almost never exists. In fact, the data can fool management, lulling them into a false sense of security.

Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.

Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.