Fool Quotes
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I'd rather be a silly old fool than a lonely old woman.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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It says in the Bible that if you argue with a fool, you become one. That’s why I don’t talk to Fred Durst!
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He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.
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My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade of silence is clean like night. The code is absolute. Silence is eternal and patient. Silence never makes a fool of itself like I have so many times.
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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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I'm afraid I might make a fool of myself over him. I'm not even sure he would notice if I did.
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Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.
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Jerome never liked me - preferred my sister who was a little fool excited by modern literature - all swear-words and scatology - before it became fashionable.
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Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
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A wise man sees failure as progress. A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic, And loses his soul in the process.
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From now on I'm thinking only of me." Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: "But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way." "Then," said Yossarian, "I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?
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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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No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself.
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When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
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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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Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool the metal.
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You better believe there will be times in your life when you'll be feeling like a stumbling fool. So take it from me: you'll learn more from your accident than anything that you could ever learn in school.
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I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.
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I used to worry I'd make a fool of myself, but I don't care what anyone thinks of me anymore.
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It is a popular idea that a man is a hero just because he was killed in action. Rather, I think, a man is frequently a fool when he gets killed.
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The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.
