Best 1525 quotes in «fool quotes» category

I loved a lass, a fair one,As fair as e'er was seen;She was indeed a rare one,Another Sheba queen:But, fool as then I was,I thought she loved me too:But now, alas! she's left me,Falero, lero, loo!

I love to fool my readers, but in a good way. If you've read any of my work, there's a good chance that at some point I surprised you.

I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked.

I'm afraid of everything. Fear of being alone, fear of being hurt, fear of being made a fool of, fear of failure... Still, I think all my fears bleed from one big one.

I'm a fool to keep staying, when you've made hurting me such an art.

I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good. I know too much to be good. I know myself. I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly.

Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.

I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.

I'm a romantic fool. I always end up getting hurt.

I'm a realist. And realists don't fool themselves.

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more.

I may play the fool at times, but I'm more than just a pretty blond boy with an ass that won't quit.

I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.

I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

I’m not a cuckoo, either. I’m a fool is what.

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs.]

I'm not afraid to look like a fool - and I think when you're not afraid, you never do.

I'm the Vice-President. They know it, and they know that I know it.

I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!

I'm not scared to look like a complete fool in front of people. It's just not one of my insecurities.

I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.

I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.

In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second.

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

I'm willing to make a fool out of myself in public. I'm also willing to make those mistakes that you're going to make the first time you go out, so hopefully the next time it will be better.

I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing.

Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached

Indonesian people have no idea whom they are actually voting for, or of what their political system consists of. It is so easy to fool them.

Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

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

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity

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 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.

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

In the abundance of water - the fool is thirsty

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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