Best 1525 quotes in «fool quotes» category

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

I'd Rather Be an Old Man's Sweetheart (Than a Young Man's Fool).

I'd rather be a silly old fool than a lonely old woman.

I'd say my greatest weakness is impatience. I don't suffer fools well.

If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable?

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

If a fool keeps his mouth shut, there will be no difference of opinion.

If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool; in you it is a sign of the disarming simplicity which is the fount of all virtue.

If I am a fool then it is no misfortune, for then only one more fool will wander this Earth. Amongst the millions of mentally deranged it would barely be noticed. But what if I am not a fool, and that science itself has erred? Then the tragedy is incalculable!

If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.

If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.

If I don't fool you, I'm not doing my job as a magician. If I make you feel foolish, I'm not doing my job as a human being.

I felt like I was in charge.

If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.

If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.

If kisses were what you were looking for, little fool, why didn't you come to me? quoted by Susannah Simon

If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.

If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.

If there is any truth to the old proverb that "one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client," the Court now bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself.

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo

If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it.

If somebody praises us and if we have any humility we will feel totally like a fool.

If the traveler cannot find master or friend to go with him, let him travel alone rather than with a fool for company.

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.

If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

If you are sure of tomorrow, there is no fool greater than you!

If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles. [If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.]

If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.

If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive me twice shame on me because I have learnt my lessons and you have deceive me and if you deceive me for the third time shame on me because am a compound fool.

If you did not know at age five that the gods are made up beings and the myths made up stories, you are a fool.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

[If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do. ... any fool can do it; all you gotta do is practice.

If you don’t want your life to be 'messed up', don’t fool around with those who have messed up theirs.

If you don't want to see the biggest fool in your life; break your bedroom mirror.

If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.

If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not.

If you listen to fools... The Mob Rules!

If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

If you believe you have a foolproof system, you've failed to take into consideration the creativity of fools.

If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

If you want to reduce the rats, use the cats! If you want to reduce the fools, use the books!

If you or one of the blind fools who follows you honestly believe you can...bring it on. I'm in the mood for Slaughter. Killing and Murder, too. ~ Jericho a.k.a. Cratus

I had a lot of good times. I had a lot of fun. I liked what I was doing, so I just kept doing it. At the Tape Music Center, I was working from midnight to four in the morning. Because then it was quiet, nobody was there, and I could just do my work. I didn't have to fool around.

If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.