Best 1525 quotes in «fool quotes» category

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.

The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul.

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.

The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.

The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.

The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.

Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

Then you're a bigger fool than I thought. Since when has any man ever been worthy of the woman he loved? It's only by God's grace that they love us in spite of ourselves.

The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it's decreed the people rule.

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

The person who constantly studies without doing spiritual practice is like the fool who attempts to live in the blueprint of a house.

There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere earthly fire, we none the less prize and value, and seek for the genuine fire which comes from the altar of the Lord.

The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing.

The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .

The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.

There are as many fools at a university as anywhere? But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampthe stamp of university training, if you like. It is trained folly.

There are enough fools in Washington to destroy the country without any help from Muslim terrorists.

There are lots of cycles to markets - boom and bust - and also in perceptions of people. The conventional wisdom of Steve Case as genius or fool was highly cyclical. The truth was always in the middle.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

There are some very good people in television, but a lot of fools running it.

There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.

There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.

There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust.

There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.

There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

There is always Joker to see through the delusion. Generation succeeds generation, but there is a fool walking the earth who is never ravaged by time.

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

There is no fool like an educated fool.

There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a fool. He who propagates god is a scoundrel. He who worships god is a barbarian.

There is no medicine to cure a fool!

There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time. Even a natural fool has to work at it.

There is no right and wrong, and precepts are for fools. Every thing is just as it is! And we must experience things without condemning them, because if we condemn them, then we are becoming too involved.

There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.

There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.

There's an expression in Yiddish, which is "der gelernte naar" - a "learned fool." You can know a great deal, you can have a Ph.D., and you can still be a total idiot.

There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he who worships him is a barbarian.

There's no exception to the rule, yes, everybody's somebody's fool.

The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human, It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman.

There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.

There's one fool at least in every married couple.

There's something I'm afraid to say to you too early, but I'd be a fool to wait too late.

There's this old line the wise folks in Washington have that "it's not the crime, but the cover-up." But only fools believe that. It's always about the crime. The whole point of the cover-up is that a full revelation of the underlying crime is not survivable.