Best 1525 quotes in «fool quotes» category

How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.

"How did you - " "Fool your guards? They're not very good. They forgot to check the ceiling for spiders." Valek grinned. His angular face softened.

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

How easy love makes fools of us.

How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool?

How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms! Tosparethegrossness ofthenames, and to dothe thing yet moreseverely, isto drawa full face, and tomake the nose and cheeks stand out, and yet not to employ any depth of shadowing.

How every fool can play upon the word!

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!

How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called fools for having imagined it could be brought to use: if it should be turned to account, we shall be ridiculed for having doubted.

How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.

How tragic that the very thing that could set us free-playing the fool-is the thing we will not do. When we're afraid to be fools, we end up being afraid to be anything.

How short life is for fools.

How wise are they that are but fools in love!

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

Hurry is the weakness of fools.

I admit I'm a fool for you, because your mine, I walk the line.

I always knew I was an excellent liar; I just didn't know that I had it in me to fool myself.

I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.

I am a fool, fools tend to follow their hearts amidst ridicule.

I am a fool. That is well known.

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.

I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.

I am an alien, I have extraordinary powers, with more to come, and I can do things that no human would dream of, but I still look like a fool.

I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

I am comfortable playing the fool, I think.

I am indeed not her fool, but her corrupter of words. (Act III, sc. I, 37-38)

I am insulted by the persistent asertion that I want war. Am I a fool? War! It would settle nothing.

I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.

I am none of those nonsensical fools that can whine and make romantic love--I leave that to younger brothers. Let my estate speakfor me.

I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.

I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ

I am not one of those who have the least anxiety about the triumph of the principles I have stood for. I have seen fools resist Providence before, and I have seen their destruction, as will come upon these again, utter destruction and contempt. That we shall prevail is as sure as that God reigns.

I am the fool, and must be the sufferer, if it be not of God.

I am the King's Fool. He is the King-In-Wating. Let him wait.

I believe what Jesus said, but Jesus never said priests couldn't be fools.

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.

I asked him "Who said you could fool around with my wife" he said everybody.

I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.

"I call them april babies cause they fools

I can go into a lab and fool the rear ends off any group of scientists.

Idiot! Lunatic! Moron! Jackass! Selfish irresponsible fool!

I could only stare, any sense that maybe I understood him evaporating as it always did. I'd glimpse something underneath, and he'd snatched it away so fast it left bruises that called me a fool for hoping for more.

I'd be a fool to surrender, when I know I can be a contender. And if everyone's a contender, then everyone could be a winner.

I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!

I do not hope somebody breaks in. However, if they did, I pity them. I pity the fool that breaks into my house.