Fool Quotes
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Prove to me that you're no fool
Walk across my swimming pool.
Tim Rice-Oxley
Keane
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I don't like anything that scares me, and I prefer to face it head on and get over it. Anyone who says they're not scared is a fool, a liar or both. I just don't want that fear in my stomach to be part of my life, so I work to eliminate it.
Anderson Cooper
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Scientists are the easiest to fool. ... They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors-they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident.
James P. Hogan
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Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
Pat Robertson
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Jury - A group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.
H. L. Mencken
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Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I've got cheekier with age. You can get away with murder when you're 71 years old. People just think I'm a silly old fool.
Bernard Manning
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I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it. I can't believe it when writers tell me 'I don't want to show my work to anybody'.
Elmore Leonard
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Whistled up to London, upon a Tom Fool's errand.
Laurence Sterne
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I try to be unafraid of making a fool of myself.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.
Olivier Sarkozy
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There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic 'scientist', the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call 'epistemic arrogance', this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.
David Gerrold
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Fools die happy. The happy die young. The young die foolish.
Alex Gaskarth
All Time Low
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To me, it's extremely interesting that men, perfectly honest, enthusiastic over their work, can so completely fool themselves.
Irving Langmuir
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'Then one can't make a living out of poetry?''Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.'
Jack London
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She must be a fool with a witness, who can believe a man, proud and vain as he is, will lay his boasted authority, the dignity and prerogative of his sex, on moment at her feet, but in prospect of taking it up again to more advantage; he may call himself her slave a few days, but it is only in order to make her his all the rest of his life.
Mary Astell
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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
