Best 1525 quotes in «fool quotes» category

In India and other places, there are people who fool themsleves. They walk around all day saying, "Who am I? Who am I?

Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.

In our show, we try to think about consequences, not about tricking the audience or hiding things to fool the audience.

In Spanish, we have a saying that when a genius points at the moon, a fool looks at the finger. I find that happens a lot with bitcoin.

Intelligent women always marry fools

Internet news cycles are by the minute, and any fool can take a headline from the Associated Press and send it out as news.

In the abundance of water - the fool is thirsty

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.

In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.

I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure

I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.

INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

I prefer to be hated than be false and fool people.

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 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.

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

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 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 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 sheep that breaks loose twice.

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

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 for a fool's habits to change to selflessness.

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

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

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.