Best 1525 quotes in «fool quotes» category

I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them.

I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don't apologise, that's my life

I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

I remember once visiting an outdoor exhibition of sculpture in Arnhem, the Netherlands. One of the artists had placed this notice at the base of a majestic beech: "Statues are hewn by fools like me: only God could make this tree." The Taoists looked at the inside of the tree. They saw God present, not as the super-sculptor, but as the primal force from which the tree drew its being and its specific form. Becoming aware of this divine origin was for them "great knowledge," to be distinguished from the "small knowledge" of our petty, every-day existence.

I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist.

I sing about what a holy fool I am, and that although moments in my life are so cruel and relationships can be so cruel I'm still in love with Judas. I still go back again to those evil things.

Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder. Another is Deity. The choice to be a fool is yours.

Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?

Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

Isn't the act of calling everyone a fool left and right the indication of a true fool?

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes, and a melody, a vocal melody - if it works with that, then I feel it's written and there's something there. So I intentionally don't get involved with arranging stuff or fussing over the sounds and the edits and the beats too much, at least not in the beginning, because I feel like then you can fool yourself that you've got something there, when you might not.

I suffered fools so gladly.

It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool

I think I've gotten technically better over the years but you'd have to be a fool not to. I've made so many movies that by sheer quantity you get better at the technique.

I think I am worthwhile just because I have optical nerves and can try to put down what they perceive. What a fool!

I think one of the funniest things about '30 Rock' is that Liz Lemon is sort of like Buster Keaton - she's always the fool, the joke is always on her.

I think that we really fool ourselves about our ability to be safe and secure nowadays.

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written

It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

It is a fool's sheep that breaks loose twice.

It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool.

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.

It is an easy thing to call names; any fool is equal to that ... and the weapon of vituperation is generally used by those who lack brains for argument or are upon the wrong side.

It is commonly, but erroneously, believed that it is easy to ask questions. A fool, it is said, can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. The fact is that a wise man can answer many questions that a fool cannot ask.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

It is difficult for a fool's habits to change to selflessness.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others — playing people against one another, making them pursue you.

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

It is impossible to design anything that is foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.

It is not fools that I seek to address.

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.

It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor to feel shame loses Paradise himself.

It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.

It says in the Bible that if you argue with a fool, you become one. That’s why I don’t talk to Fred Durst!

It probably is harder to fool people when they know they're going to be fooled.

Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.