Fool Quotes
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Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid, Force many a shining youth into the shade, Not to redeem his time, but his estate, And play the fool, but at the cheaper rate.
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A serious ape whom none take seriously,Obliged in this fool's world to earn his nutsBy hard buffoonery.
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A man is a fool who leans on the arm of flesh when he can be supported by the arm of Omnipotence.
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Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
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Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.
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The way you make something happen is to do something that a fool could screw up.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter; Oh no! the miserablest day we live There's many a better thing to do than die!
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A fool and his money are soon married.
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The word "necessary" is miserably applied. It disordereth families, and overturneth government, by being so abused. Remember that children and fools want everything because they want judgment to distinguish; and therefore there is no stronger evidence of a crazy understanding than the making too large a catalogue of things necessary.
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If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?
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Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts.
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He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and always shall be.
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I think what all actors share is that, somewhere down in your solar plexus, there's this fear that you're not going to be able to come up with the goods, that this is the one movie where you're going to look like a fool, and they should have cast someone else. And you feel ugly, and you've got three chins, and you've gained too much weight, and you're losing your hair, and there are so many better actors who could do this. But if you've got chops, what you realize is that everybody feels that way, so just show up and do the job.
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Why ... do the myths of America the Hateful take such powerful hold? Because anti-Americanism provides a useful emotional function which goes beyond logic and reaches deep into the darker recesses of the European soul. In centuries past those on the Left who wished to personalise their hatred of capitalism, who sought to make it emotionally resonant by fastening an envious political passion on to a blameless scapegoat people, embraced anti-Semitism. It was the socialism of fools. Which is what anti-Americanism is now.
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You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
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I don't want to fool anyone, we should win and it should be a strong victory. But we have to be very serious about it.
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He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.
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The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.
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Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others.
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The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.”
