Fool Quotes
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It is success that colours all in life,
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
Matthew Arnold
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
Franklin Pierce Adams
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I can't write a book like 'Lamb' or 'Fool' every year. It just takes too much research and craft.
Christopher Moore
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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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When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?
C. S. Lewis
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He who does not believe that God is above all is either a fool or has no experience of life.
Caecilius Statius
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I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them.
Donna Douglas
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Who was it who said that a wise man speaks when he has something to say, but a fool speaks because he must?
Alastair Reynolds
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It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all.
Jeff Goldblum
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Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.
Angelique Kidjo
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Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Euripides
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Sincerity seems to be a problem today. I'd rather be true and hated than be false and fool people.
Kristen Stewart
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At the end of the day, Fool's Gold is a label that, when I hear something I like, I try to grab it for the label. There's a ton of great music coming out.
Alain Macklovitch
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He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.
William Wycherley
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Any fool can make a quilt; and, after we had made a couple of dozen over twenty years ago, we quit the business with a conviction that nobody but a fool would spend so much time in cutting bits of dry goods into yet small bits and sewing them together again, just for the sake of making believe that they were busy at practical work.
Abigail Scott Duniway
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Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded them fool-like and paid, and paid; had I a son I'd hand 'em on and ram 'em home. What fools we be when young. We fancy we be wise, forgetting that the old boys have graduated in the 'varsity of the world, the greatest 'varsity of all, and each day we should learn from they.
Robert Baden-Powell
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Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away... a bigger fool than when he came to it.
Bill Vaughan
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He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.
Plutarch
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If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.
Gautama Buddha
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Man was made to be immortal; else, he could not survive being the fool he is.
Douglas Southall Freeman
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It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans.
Marv Albert
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I'm a realist. And realists don't fool themselves.
Adam Dunn
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If he does he's a fool," said Hazael. "The message is clear. Please enjoy this lovely fruit while contemplating all the ways we might kill you in your sleep.
Laini Taylor