Best 1525 quotes in «fool quotes» category

The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.

The best way to get away from a crisis and yet hold on the reins without performance is to find a godfather who would save you at crisis and fool the entire world..This is how it has worked for me.

The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.

The biggest fool to hit the big time and all I've got to do is act naturally.

The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap.

The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.

The cognitive therapy that takes place in the film Antichrist is a form of therapy that I have used for some time, and it has to do with confronting your fears. I would say that especially the part of the film that has to do with therapy is humoristic because people who know about this form of therapy would know that the character is more than a fool.

The conclusion to which I am ever more clearly coming is that the only hope of attaining a true system of economics is to fling aside,once and forever, the mazy and preposterous assumptions of the Ricardian school. Our English economists have been living in a fool's paradise. The truth is with the French school, and the sooner we recognize the fact, the better it will be for all the world, except perhaps the few writers who are far too committed to the old erroneous doctrines to allow for renunciation.

The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence... also the damnest fool.

The crazy thing about it is she'd take him back, but the fool in him that walked out is the fool who just won't ask.

The cross-eyed fool sees one lamp as two; The vision and the viewer are one

The demon got up. The demon said Fool. To think you can eat their food and not talk to them. To think you can take their money and not be afraid of them. To think you can depend on their company and not suffer from them.

The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and...kind of slogans that are...they fool the people. They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.

The devil fools with the best laid plans.

The electricity came on for the second time today wile we were eating. This may be a fool's paradise, but it's a paradise nonetheless.

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.

The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.

The fool learns by suffering.

The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.

The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.

The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.

The fool knows nothing of God; he never comes across anything divine. He remains part of the stupid collectivity. Remember, the society, the collective has no soul; the soul belongs to the individual. Hence, those who belong to the collective are destroying every possibility of being souls.

"The fool, dwelling on the bank of the Ganga, digs a well for water!" Such are we! Living in the midst of God - we must go and make images.

The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither

The fool has set in his heart that he can get more money through the tiring of his muscle and the starvation of his brain-but he can't.

The fool is looking for happiness far away. The wise man makes it grow under his feet.

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.

The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.

The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy, but as the Holy Scripture shows, it was the sun and not the earth which Joshua ordered to stand still.

The fool knows after he has suffered.

The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad.

The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.

[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.

The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

The greatest fools are oft the most satisfied.

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

The future will be a better tomorrow.

The greater the fool the better the dancer.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

The great secret of the successful fool is that he's no fool at all