Best 1525 quotes in «fool quotes» category

European lotteries are the tax on fools.

Even a fool is wise after an event.

Even a fool gets to be young once.

Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.

Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.

Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocrats. He puts in idiots and fools.

Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.

Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Everybody wants to have a goal - I gotta get to that goal, I gotta get to that goal, I gotta get to that goal. I can finally get to that goal. Then you get to that goal, and then you gotta get to another goal. But in between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed - and if you don't, you're a fool.

Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.

Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions.

Every fool in error can find a passage of scripture to back him up

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.

Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!

Every time I see you with sunbae, I always feel unhappy. This time the same thing happened. Why is it not me but another woman? This is not the first, but the second time. I'm always like this. Just like a fool.

Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.

Every unhappy genius dreams to be in the place of a happy fool.

Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe.

Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.

Every time I read the paper those old feelings come on.We are waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool says to push on.

Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all.

Fear and anxiety were exploited by zealots and fools.

Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs us of our skills, our judgment, and blinds us to creative solutions.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.

Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.

Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can’t be good, be careful.

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it.

Fools do not understand men of intelligence.

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation

Fool witch once, shame on you. Fool witch twice, oozing sores and an eternal rash in private areas.

Fool you once, you are forgiven. Fool you twice, you're just a fool.

Fools are wise until they speak.

Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

Fools take criticism and dish it back. The wise take it and turn it to their advantage.

Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.

Fools you are who say you like to learn from your mistakes. I prefer to learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid the cost of my own.

First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.

Follow the rules or follow the fools.

Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.