Fool Quotes

• 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
  • Man
  • Fool

• Since 99.362% of women love mustache rides, it seems only a fool would have a bare upper lip.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Women
  • Fool
  • Rides

• I've always been a coffee-lovin' fool, from the time I was a kid.

  

  Joey Kramer Aerosmith
  • Time
  • Fool
  • Coffee

• The fashionable idiocy that haters must have justifications is one of those ideas that George Orwell said only an intellectual could believe -- because no one else could be such a fool.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Believe
  • Ideas
  • Intellectual

• Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!

  

  Emile Zola
  • Good
  • Death
  • Littles

• If you think that starving yourself all day is going to make you happy, you're a fool, because not only are you physically drained, you're mentally drained, with nothing left to give to your work or your lover or whoever it is you so want to be beautiful for.

  

  Jade Jagger
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Beautiful

• 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
  • Fire
  • Fool

• Before I even started to school, I sometimes would hide behind the radio, which would be sitting on a table, and pretend that I was on the air and try to fool people who came by to listen.

  

  Carl Kasell
  • People
  • School
  • Air

• 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
  • Why
  • Funny
  • Fool

• We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Attention
  • Fool
  • Wavering

• A good script is like a work of art in itself. I've read hundreds of scripts, and good ones are very rare. If the writer has something to say, and a voice, and a plot that matches character, and an emotional trajectory that works, then I'd be an idiot to fool around with it. It's just that few scripts ever are like that.

  

  Pawel Pawlikowski
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• You make me smile like the sun, fall out bed, sing like a bird, dizzy in my head. Spin like a record crazy on a sunday night. You make me dance like a fool, forget how to breath, shine like the sun buzz like a bee, just the thought of you can drive me wild. Oh you make me smile.

  

  Matthew Shafer
  • Night
  • Fall
  • Crazy

• When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Teacher
  • April
  • Goldfish

• Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine – If he love with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years, as I could in a day. And Catherine has a heart as deep as I have; the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough, as her whole affection be monopolized by him – Tush! He is scarcely a degree dearer to her than her dog, or her horse – It is not in him to be loved like me, how can she love in him what he has not?

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Heart
  • Horse
  • Powers

• In a drama, you don't make a fool of yourself.

  

  Peter Scolari
  • Drama
  • Fool

• 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
  • Victim
  • Classic
  • Asia

• A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

  

  Anna Jameson
  • May
  • Fool

• The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.

  

  Aristotle
  • Reason
  • Wise Man
  • Persuades

• Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Man
  • Wise
  • Calls

• You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

  

  James Thurber
  • People
  • Time
  • Fool

• 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
  • People
  • Trying
  • Career

• A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

  

  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
  • Wise
  • Fool

• I don't go and study other folks. I come from where I came from, as a kid, in the little black church I grew up in. And some of the things they did I rejected, because I could see that it was a manipulation and an exaggeration. My struggle is never to fool folks; to keep it authentic - who we are and who we are becoming - rather than to mimic or to translate what others do into my own terms.

  

  Cecil Williams
  • Church
  • Never
  • Struggle

• I'm dying to fool around with the distance between Selina Kyle and Catwoman. And, you know, the whole double identity thing is endlessly fascinating. I mean, you can always find another riff for it.

  

  Ann Nocenti
  • Identity
  • Dying
  • Distance

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