Fool Quotes
-
Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
Valerie Simpson
-
If Lennon were alive today, he probably would have reconciled with the man he accused of having 'made a fool of everyone.' John would have been the first one now, if he had been there, to recognise and acknowledge what Maharishi has done for the world and appreciate it.
Yoko Ono
-
The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.
Rachel Cusk
-
It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
W. Somerset Maugham
-
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
Oscar Wilde
-
Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.
Raha Moharrak
-
Tell me I'm a fool. I would not know how to believe it.
John Roy Anderson Yes
-
Shinsuke Nakamura is probably one of the best wrestlers I've ever been in the ring with. He's very unorthodox. Everything he does is with knockout power. He's a guy who is very flamboyant, so don't let his Michael Jackson antics fool you. This guy is deadly.
A.J. Styles
-
I know the reason why you keep your silence up, No you don't fool me. The hurt doesn't show But the pain still grows It's no stranger to you and me.
Phil Collins Genesis
-
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
Dale Carnegie
-
Vote, v. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Ambrose Bierce
-
I have a fear of heights, so falling off something very tall. But I've conquered a good amount of my fears. I guess most people would have the fear of getting up in front of a large audience of people and making a fool of themselves. I've gotten over that.
Beck
-
Now and then, there's a fool such as I.
Hank Snow
-
My career is a burden, but I can't just fade out like a pathetic sore loser. More often than not, I'm just making a fool of myself for the hundredth time, and that wasn't part of the plan, initially. I'd be happier not having any kind of public presence whatsoever and just hiding behind the sleeves of the CD.
Ariel Pink
-
Travelers never did lie, though fools at home condemn them.
William Shakespeare
-
Did Stanton say I was a damned fool? Then I dare say I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and he always says what he means.
Abraham Lincoln
-
Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
H. L. Mencken
-
I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
Captain Beefheart
-
There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.
William Faulkner
-
A man, well, he'll walk right into Hell with both eyes open. But even the devil can't fool a dog.
Earl Hamner, Jr.
-
When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
Zoe Kazan
-
I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
Jack Kemp
-
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
J. William Fulbright
-
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
Pauline Kael