Best 1525 quotes in «fool quotes» category

A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

A rogue is a roundabout fool.

As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters.

A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.

As long as you're willing to be called a fool, you can create anything, do anything, be anything.

As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain hidden deep in Emily’s nature—the strain of the gypsy and the poet, the genius and the fool.

As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.

As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it; those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.

A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.

At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

As we at all times criticise the Premier for his management of home affairs, call Mr Butler a fool for his Budget, find fault with Beecham's conducting, or Gielgud's performance, can we not, sometimes, say that our cricketers are not quite so brilliant as usual?

As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.

A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

Baby I'm a fool who thinks it's cool to fall in love

Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others.

Beauty,’ Brimstone had scoffed once. ‘Humans are fools for it. As helpless as moths who hurl themselves at fire.

Battles I lose none I make crews run I get fools done, got ten fingers but only use one

Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.

Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.

Being a fool for God was not merely alright but liberating.

Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.

Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.

Better be a foole then a knave. [Better be a fool than a knave.]

Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.

beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.

Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.

Busy old fool, unruly Sophie

Busy opinion is an idle fool.

... but any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life.

But Anne, do you love him?" I asked curiously. The curve of her hood hid all but the corner of her smile. "I am a fool to own it, but I am in a fever for his touch.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,-- Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.

But only a fool sails into combat with nature

But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?

But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.

But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.

But what if we are dealing with fools?

But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.