Best 1525 quotes in «fool quotes» category

So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make him aggressive. A fool must therefore be treated more cautiously than a scoundrel.

So whatever you want to do, just do it... Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

Stick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools.

Stock prices turn people's heads. When prices are high, we treat a company like gods, and if they drop, we treat them as fools.

Stiff-necked fools, you think you are cool to deny me for simplicity.

Sunny didn't make a fool out of Phineas, God beat her to that.

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

Takes a man or a woman to say I'm sorry, and it takes a fool to walk away.

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.

That's good; don't deny it. Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar. In this profession, you can be one- sometimes the other. But never both.

That fame monster's a fool, man. It really is.

[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]

That great philosopher anonymous once said, never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.

The best way to get away from a crisis and yet hold on the reins without performance is to find a godfather who would save you at crisis and fool the entire world..This is how it has worked for me.

That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment

The athletic fool, to whom what heaven denied of soul, is well compensated in limbs.

The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master; for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but he who disobeys the other is a fool.

The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.

The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.

The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.

The biggest fool to hit the big time and all I've got to do is act naturally.

The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

The cognitive therapy that takes place in the film Antichrist is a form of therapy that I have used for some time, and it has to do with confronting your fears. I would say that especially the part of the film that has to do with therapy is humoristic because people who know about this form of therapy would know that the character is more than a fool.

The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap.

The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.

The conclusion to which I am ever more clearly coming is that the only hope of attaining a true system of economics is to fling aside,once and forever, the mazy and preposterous assumptions of the Ricardian school. Our English economists have been living in a fool's paradise. The truth is with the French school, and the sooner we recognize the fact, the better it will be for all the world, except perhaps the few writers who are far too committed to the old erroneous doctrines to allow for renunciation.

The crazy thing about it is she'd take him back, but the fool in him that walked out is the fool who just won't ask.

The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence... also the damnest fool.

The cross-eyed fool sees one lamp as two; The vision and the viewer are one

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

The electricity came on for the second time today wile we were eating. This may be a fool's paradise, but it's a paradise nonetheless.

The demon got up. The demon said Fool. To think you can eat their food and not talk to them. To think you can take their money and not be afraid of them. To think you can depend on their company and not suffer from them.

The devil fools with the best laid plans.

The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and...kind of slogans that are...they fool the people. They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.

The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.

The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.

The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.

The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.

The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.

The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.

The foolhardy are not necessarily stupid, for fools simply follow their imagination whereas the stupid have none.

The fool is disturbed not when they tell him that his ideas are false, but when they suggest that they have gone out of style.