Best 1525 quotes in «fool quotes» category

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

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

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.

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.

I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.

I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself.

I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.

I have your word?” “You trust my word?” “You’re an idealistic fool. Of course.

I hate Mourinho. He's a fool.

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain.

I have rarely talked to anyone about my mother, for I believe that I am capable of killing a person, without hesitation, who happened to make the wrong kind of remark about my mother. So I purposely don't make any opening for some fool to step into.

I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.

I know what you are. I've always known from the beginning, Kushiel's Chosen. It is folly, to make claim on one whom the gods have marked for their own. And unlike the others, I am no fool, to grasp at that which burns to the touch. What you have given..." she raised one hand, palm upward, the garnet seal dangling at her wrist, "... I hold in an open hand.

I loved a lass, a fair one,As fair as e'er was seen;She was indeed a rare one,Another Sheba queen:But, fool as then I was,I thought she loved me too:But now, alas! she's left me,Falero, lero, loo!

I like attractive people who aren't so terribly aware that they are attractive... people who aren't afraid to roll on the floor and make fools out of themselves.

I like to buy a company any fool can manage because eventually one will.

I like being fooled. When I watch someone who does sleight-of-hand and fools me, it's a great feeling.

I'm a fool to keep staying, when you've made hurting me such an art.

I'm afraid of everything. Fear of being alone, fear of being hurt, fear of being made a fool of, fear of failure... Still, I think all my fears bleed from one big one.

I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good. I know too much to be good. I know myself. I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly.

I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.

I love to fool my readers, but in a good way. If you've read any of my work, there's a good chance that at some point I surprised you.

I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked.

Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.

I'm a romantic fool. I always end up getting hurt.

I may play the fool at times, but I'm more than just a pretty blond boy with an ass that won't quit.

I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

I'm a realist. And realists don't fool themselves.

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more.

I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs.]

I’m not a cuckoo, either. I’m a fool is what.

I'm not afraid to look like a fool - and I think when you're not afraid, you never do.

I'm not scared to look like a complete fool in front of people. It's just not one of my insecurities.

I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!

I'm the Vice-President. They know it, and they know that I know it.

I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.

I'm willing to make a fool out of myself in public. I'm also willing to make those mistakes that you're going to make the first time you go out, so hopefully the next time it will be better.

I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.