Fool Quotes
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What we define as a bubble is any kind of debt-fueled asset inflation where the cash flow generated by the asset itself - a rental property, office building, condo - does not cover the debt incurred to buy the asset. So you depend on a greater fool, if you will, to come in and buy at a higher price.
James Chanos
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God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
Victor Hugo
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Trying to catch hold of yourself is a fool's errand. There is no you, only a series of former yous, created in one instant, deleted in the next.
Jesse Kellerman
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
William Golding
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I prefer to be hated than be false and fool people.
Kristen Stewart
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An unemployed court jester is nobody's fool.
Kevin Hart
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Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.
Bobby Darin
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There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
Diogenes
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Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again.
James Stephens
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When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.
Phyllis McGinley
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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 can fool people that I was educated.
Jane Lynch
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Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
Plutarch
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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
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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
Francis Bacon
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I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, 'This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!'
Lewis Mumford
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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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Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damage. It destroyed the momentum.
Patrick Kavanagh
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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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The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.
Jerome Lawrence
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I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.
William Shakespeare
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He died and He went down to hell! You know not what you mean. Our rafters were of green fir. Also our beds were green. But out of the mouth of a fool, a fool, before the darkness fall, We tell you He is risen again, The Lord of Life is risen again, The boughs put forth their tender buds, and Love is Lord of all!
Alfred Noyes