Best 1525 quotes in «fool quotes» category

If somebody praises us and if we have any humility we will feel totally like a fool.

If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.

If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it.

If the traveler cannot find master or friend to go with him, let him travel alone rather than with a fool for company.

If there is any truth to the old proverb that "one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client," the Court now bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself.

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles. [If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.]

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.

If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.

If you are sure of tomorrow, there is no fool greater than you!

If you believe you have a foolproof system, you've failed to take into consideration the creativity of fools.

If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.

If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not.

If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive me twice shame on me because I have learnt my lessons and you have deceive me and if you deceive me for the third time shame on me because am a compound fool.

If you did not know at age five that the gods are made up beings and the myths made up stories, you are a fool.

[If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do. ... any fool can do it; all you gotta do is practice.

If you listen to fools... The Mob Rules!

If you don't want to see the biggest fool in your life; break your bedroom mirror.

If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

If you don’t want your life to be 'messed up', don’t fool around with those who have messed up theirs.

If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.

If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

If you or one of the blind fools who follows you honestly believe you can...bring it on. I'm in the mood for Slaughter. Killing and Murder, too. ~ Jericho a.k.a. Cratus

If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.

If you want to reduce the rats, use the cats! If you want to reduce the fools, use the books!

I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

I hate Mourinho. He's a fool.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.

I had a lot of good times. I had a lot of fun. I liked what I was doing, so I just kept doing it. At the Tape Music Center, I was working from midnight to four in the morning. Because then it was quiet, nobody was there, and I could just do my work. I didn't have to fool around.

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.

I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.

I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.

I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.

I have rarely talked to anyone about my mother, for I believe that I am capable of killing a person, without hesitation, who happened to make the wrong kind of remark about my mother. So I purposely don't make any opening for some fool to step into.

I have your word?” “You trust my word?” “You’re an idealistic fool. Of course.

I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

I know what you are. I've always known from the beginning, Kushiel's Chosen. It is folly, to make claim on one whom the gods have marked for their own. And unlike the others, I am no fool, to grasp at that which burns to the touch. What you have given..." she raised one hand, palm upward, the garnet seal dangling at her wrist, "... I hold in an open hand.