Best 1525 quotes in «fool quotes» category

God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.

Granpa said if there was less words, there wouldn't be as much trouble in the world. He said privately to me that there was always some damn fool making up a word that served no purpose except to cause trouble.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Hard words are for fools and cowards.

Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.

He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.

He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.

He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.

He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.

Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn't brotherly -- who lived mostly under his parents' roof . . . who advocated one day's work and six days "off" as the weekly round and was considered a bit of a fool in his hometown . . . is probably the American writer who tells us best how to live comfortably with our most constant companion, ourselves.

Her nudity is her armor. It blinded the drooling fools. They couldn't see anything else while they saw her body.

Heraldry has been contemptuously termed 'the science of fools with long memories.'

Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.

He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.

He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.

He smiled at her. And it hit her like a mallet to the temple, the realization that she was in love with him. Stupidly, dreadfully in love with him.Overnight, she'd become a fool.

He that Opposes his own Judgment against the Current of the Times, ought to be back'd with unanswerable Truths; and he that has that Truth on his Side, is a Fool, as well as a Coward, if he is afraid to own it, because of the Currency or Multitude of other Mens Opinions.

He that cannot reason is a fool.

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool.

He that comes in print because he would be known, is like the fool that comes into the market because he would be seen.

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.

He that opposes his own judgment against the consent of the times ought to be backed with unanswerable truths; and he that has truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because of other men's opinions.

He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.

He who laughs at everything is as big a fool as he who weeps at everything.

He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.

He who is his own guide is guided by a fool.

He who disagrees with me in private, call him a fool. He who disagrees with me in public, call him an ambulance.

He who represents himself has a fool for a client

He who knows not and knows not he knows not:  he is a fool -- shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not:  he is simple -- teach him.

He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.

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 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 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 every fool can play upon the word!

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

How short life is for fools.

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 wise are they that are but fools in love!