Best 1525 quotes in «fool quotes» category

Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools.

An unemployed jester is nobody's fool.

Anybody who can drive and doesn't come out of it a rich man is a fool.

Any damn fool can be spontaneous.

Any damn fool can put on a deal, but it takes genius, faith and perseverance to create a brand.

Any damn fool can predict the past.

Any damn fool can build homes. What counts is how many you can sell for how little.

Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.

Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.

Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing.

Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.

Any fool can steer a ship, sir. Its just knowing where to take it.

Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.

Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Any fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away.

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.

Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.

Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.

Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.

A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.

A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools

A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.

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

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters.

A sensible woman can never be happy with a 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.

A rogue is a roundabout fool.

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

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 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.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.

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