Best 1525 quotes in «fool quotes» category

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

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

He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.

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 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 that cannot reason is 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 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 uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.

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

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.

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

"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.

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

How easy love makes fools of us.

How every fool can play upon the word!

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.

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

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 ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

How tragic that the very thing that could set us free-playing the fool-is the thing we will not do. When we're afraid to be fools, we end up being afraid to be anything.

How wise are they that are but fools in love!

How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!

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 short life is for fools.

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.

Hurry is the weakness of fools.

I admit I'm a fool for you, because your mine, I walk the line.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

I am a fool, fools tend to follow their hearts amidst ridicule.

I always knew I was an excellent liar; I just didn't know that I had it in me to fool myself.

I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.

I am an alien, I have extraordinary powers, with more to come, and I can do things that no human would dream of, but I still look like a fool.

I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.

I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.