Best 1525 quotes in «fool quotes» category

Being a fool for God was not merely alright but liberating.

Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.

Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.

Better be a foole then a knave. [Better be a fool than a knave.]

Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.

Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.

Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.

beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.

Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.

Busy old fool, unruly Sophie

Busy opinion is an idle fool.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

But Anne, do you love him?" I asked curiously. The curve of her hood hid all but the corner of her smile. "I am a fool to own it, but I am in a fever for his touch.

But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,-- Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.

... but any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life.

But only a fool sails into combat with nature

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?

But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.

But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.

By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.

But what if we are dealing with fools?

But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.

Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.

By the time it becomes obvious that a technology will have truly disruptive impact, it is often too late to take action. This is one reason why we are such advocates of using theory to try to analyze industry change. Conclusive evidence that proves that a company needs to take action almost never exists. In fact, the data can fool management, lulling them into a false sense of security.

Chance is the fool's name for Fate

Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s if possible.

Children and fools speak true.

Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.

Children and fools always speak the truth

Coaxing drunken Shadowhunters into making fools of themselves was a favorite occupation among the Downworlders, and this performance had been a tremendous success.

choose now," he spat, his eyes practically shooing sparks. "me or him." gosh,Fang, you romantic fool," i said sarcastically."howw incredibly sexist pig of you.

Coincidence. That's an explanation used by fools and liars.

Congress should know how to levy taxes, and if it doesn't know how to collect them, then a man is a fool to pay the taxes.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.

Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.

Crying with the wise is better than laughing with the fool.

Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.

Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may be said to favor fools by those who, however prudent in their opinion, are deficient in valor and enterprise.

Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.

Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit; And some errors never would have thriven, had it not been for learned refutation.

Crystal sincerity hath found no shelter but in a fool's cap.

Cynical is a fool's word for realist.

Daniel Radcliffe was actually a fan of the show and excited to be on it. Some of it is we've gone long enough that we're legitimate. Even if they don't know the show, they know we are a show and not some weird thing that's going to go away. Also, the more celebrities we get on BoJack show, the more it feels like a club to be in: "If Naomi Watts will make a fool of herself, I guess I can make a fool of myself, too.