Best 1525 quotes in «fool quotes» category

Now and then, there's a fool such as I.

Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that they manipulate the world by pussy power and gentle cajolery are fools. It is slavery to have to adopt such tactics.

Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some other damn fool tells him he's going to see.

Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.

OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer . . .

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.

O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.

Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

Oh what fools we mortals are.

On adultery: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?

Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.

Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby.

On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen.

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

One may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospects

One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.

One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.

One of the benefits of being a mature well-educated woman is that you're not afraid of expletives. And you have no fear to put a fool in his place. That's the power of language and experience. You can learn a lot from Shakespeare.

One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.

Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.

Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.

Only a fool never changes his mind.

Only a fool has no regrets and I'm not a fool.

Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.

Only a fool thinks his enemies stand still when he isn't looking, my Lord Dragon.

Only a fool walks into the future backwards.

Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.

Only fools and passengers drink at sea.

Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don't understand truth nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non vegetarian

Only fools make permanent decisions without knowledge.

Only fools pity survivors their scars and you should never kowtow to fools

Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.

Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.

Only fools worship their tools

Only fools, pure theorists, or apprentices fail to take public opinion into account.

Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports   in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place.

Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.

Only a fool makes threats, and only another fool feels threatened.

Only a fool trips on what’s behind them.

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.

Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes

Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.