Best 1525 quotes in «fool quotes» category

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.

It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool.

It is commonly, but erroneously, believed that it is easy to ask questions. A fool, it is said, can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. The fact is that a wise man can answer many questions that a fool cannot ask.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

It is difficult for a fool's habits to change to selflessness.

It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on

It is impossible to design anything that is foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.

It is not fools that I seek to address.

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others — playing people against one another, making them pursue you.

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor to feel shame loses Paradise himself.

It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.

It probably is harder to fool people when they know they're going to be fooled.

I truly believed that tonight would never happen, that I would never sing these songs to you again. But then I'm a fool, which you've probably worked out by now.

It's a real buzz, even in front of 20 people, to make a complete fool of yourself. But people seemed to like it. And the thing is, if people started throwing tomatoes at me, I wouldn't have gone on with it.

It's a long climb up Fools' Hill.

It`s acceptable for men to act the fool. When women try, they`re considered aggressive and opinionated.

Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.

It says in the Bible that if you argue with a fool, you become one. That’s why I don’t talk to Fred Durst!

It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar

It's odd to spend your vacation with someone else's music especially when you're alone. You're free to let loose, unobserved, but someone else has chosen the words you belt out in private, the rythms you can dance to like a fool.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

It seems to me that kings and queens can be fools when they forget what they are and act like who they are, but they're worse when they only remember what they are and forget who.

It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.

It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.

It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.

Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay

It`s human nature to be optimistic. Any fool can enter a market, it takes talent to exit consistently and profitably.

It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.

It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.

It was this same Jesus, the Christ who, among many other remarkable things, said and repeated something which, proceeding from any other being would have condemned him at once as either a bloated egotist or a dangerously unbalanced person...when He said He himself would rise again from the dead, the third day after He was crucified, He said something that only a fool would dare say, if he expected longer the devotion of any disciples-unless He was sure He was going to rise. No founder of any world religion known to men ever dared say a thing like that!

It takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.

I've been a fool to allow dreams to become great expectations.

I've always found it much more dangerous to fool with a man's mistress than his wife.

I was a fool. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. But I have to say, it's been incredibly rewarding and I learn so much every day.

I've been very much intrigued by and impressed with women. But I've never been intimidated. Even if I make a fool of myself, it's better to have tried.

I've got a hangover." "No, you hit your head on the floor." "I can't stay. I've got to rescue that fool Sophie.

I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.

I've listened to Preachers, I've listened to fools. I've worshipped the dropouts, who've made their own rules.

I was always a little embarrassed when there was an act on television that requires a great deal of skill but is a little goofy, and the host comes over and acts like the person doing this skill is some sort of fool for having learned to do something that's very, very difficult.

I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools.