Best 1525 quotes in «fool quotes» category

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.

A grandmother is a person with too much wisdom to let that stop her from making a fool of herself over her grandchildren.

Ah, fool! faint heart fair lady ne'er could win.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.

Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art." Feste: "But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool.

Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!

A laughing fool ... seems born for nothing but to show his teeth.

A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.

A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.

All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.

All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

All of this unrest and all the riots and all the protests, really the anger is at all of you who voted for Donald Trump and voted for Republicans. That's really the nub of it. They're angry at Trump, but Trump wouldn't be there if it weren't for you. They are angry. They feel rejected. The American people, and I've already told you how they think of Trump voters. They think Trump voters are uneducated, Deliverance types. You're fools, you're idiots, you're uneducated, you're unsophisticated, you're just an embarrassment, you're an American embarrassment.

All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is fool enough to do so.

Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

Although some fools find rudeness sexy, it is never the path to seduction.

All you've got is the word of a fool dog. It's been my experience that a bloodhound is the foolishest dog that is. I don't remember of anybody ever keeping a bloodhound for a yard dog. They're such dad blasted fools.

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.

A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.

A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.

A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.

A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool.

A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot

A man who makes known his love by words is a fool.

A man who says he feels no fear is either a fool or a liar.

A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.

An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

And eat lots of mints, it fools the cops.

and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter

And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

Angels rush in when fools are almost dead.

An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong.

Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools.

An unemployed jester is nobody's fool.

Anybody who can drive and doesn't come out of it a rich man is a fool.

Any damn fool can predict the past.

Any damn fool can build homes. What counts is how many you can sell for how little.

Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.

Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.

Any fool can steer a ship, sir. Its just knowing where to take it.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.