Fool Quotes
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It's better to dance like a fool, than to stand around like an idiot.
Oliver Gaspirtz
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Since 99.362% of women love mustache rides, it seems only a fool would have a bare upper lip.
Albert Einstein
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Ali was actually able to fool some people into thinking that Foreman was actually a white man.
Leon Gast
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I've always been a coffee-lovin' fool, from the time I was a kid.
Joey Kramer Aerosmith
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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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The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
Aristotle
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A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
Anna Jameson
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Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.
Alan Rickman
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The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
Luc de Clapiers
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon
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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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He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.
Plutarch
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I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.
Anna Deavere Smith
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What is this thing called love? This funny thing called love? Just who can solve this mystery? Why should it make a fool of me?
Cole Porter
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A prig is a pompous fool who has gone out for a ceremonial walk, and without knowing it has lost an important part of his attire, namely, his sense of humour.
Arnold Bennett
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Some of the best people i know are fools', Evanelle said. 'The strongest people I know.
Sarah Addison Allen
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Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art." Feste: "But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool.
William Shakespeare
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Pale manchild were there last agonies? Were you in terror, did you know? Could you feel the claw that claimed you? And who is this fool kneeling over your bones, choked with bitterness? And what could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream.
Cormac McCarthy
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I'm nobody's fool, least of all yours.
George Sanders
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A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
William Goldman
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I am of course notoriously hooked on cigarettes. I keep hoping the things will kill me. A fire at one end and a fool at the other.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Something I learned early on in my career is there's no use trying to fool anybody about what you want to do on a project where there are other people involved, rather than your own thing.
Jon Watts
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Debasement was limited at first to one’s own territory. It was then found that one could do better by taking bad coins across the border of neighboring municipalities and exchanging them for good with ignorant common people, bringing back the good coins and debasing them again. More and more mints were established. Debasement accelerated in hyper-fashion until a halt was called after the subsidiary coins became practically worthless, and children played with them in the street, much as recounted in Leo Tolstoy’s short story, Ivan the Fool.
Charles P. Kindleberger