Fool Quotes

• I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Night
  • Brain
  • Feelings

• 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.

  

  Kellan Lutz
  • Women
  • Fool

• Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

  

  Al Bernstein
  • Done
  • Job
  • Fool

• Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.

  

  Andrew Pyper
  • Vision
  • Fool

• People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card.

  

  Frank Robinson
  • People
  • Up
  • Fool

• I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Work
  • Liar
  • Hypocrite

• The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.

  

  Carl Maria von Weber
  • Suffering
  • Foolish
  • Endure

• I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

  

  Daniel J. Boorstin
  • Good
  • Real
  • Bad

• While everyone usually turns up late at Bollywood parties, I always reach these places on time and end up making a fool of myself.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fool

• When [Republicans] say they can reduce taxes and trim deficits at the same time, they are either deluded or deceptive, and they are playing voters for fools.

  

  E. J. Dionne
  • Time
  • Republican
  • Voters

• ....But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay,Invention, Nature's child, fled step-dame Study's blows,And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way.Thus great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes,Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:'Fool,' said my Muse to me, 'look in thy heart and write.'

  

  Philip Sidney
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Nature

• The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.

  

  Socrates
  • Wisdom
  • Tongue
  • Wise Man

• I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.

  

  Katharine Whitehorn
  • Fool

• I see you laugh, and rightly so. What is this silly old fool rambling on about? Good for you. Never respect years, only deeds.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Good
  • Respect
  • Silly

• I remember learning how to play 'The Fool On The Hill' on piano when I was in maybe fifth grade.

  

  Britt Daniel
  • Remember
  • Learning
  • Fool

• When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Long
  • Theatre
  • Fool

• Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

  

  Pat Robertson
  • History
  • Politics
  • Fool

• Don't let the American accent fool you. I am British.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • American
  • British
  • Accent

• To me, it's extremely interesting that men, perfectly honest, enthusiastic over their work, can so completely fool themselves.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • Work
  • Men
  • Interesting

• 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
  • Life
  • Up
  • Believe

• 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
  • Fool

• When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Worry
  • Fool

• Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

  

  William Shenstone
  • War
  • Pursue
  • Toil

• We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first wisdoms. So acknowledging foolishness is always a very important and powerful experience. The phenomenal world can be perceived and seen properly if we see it from the perspective of being a fool. There is very little distance between being a fool and being wise; they are extremely close. When we are really, truly fools, when we actually acknowledge our foolishness, then we are way ahead. We are not even in the process of becoming wise — we are already wise.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • World
  • Important
  • Experience

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