Fool Quotations | Page 3

Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.

The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.

Everybody's strange everywhere. Most of the trick of being a social animal is pretending you're not. But who do you fool? Nobody worth talking to.

My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion.

"Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool."

Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.

Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.

Never argue with a drunk or a fool.

Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an audience ever. They know when you have it and they know when you don't.

That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.

It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

And thus love makes fools of us all.

He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.

A wise man can be a fool in love.

Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.

If you don't allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

Look down at me and you see a fool, Look up at me and you see a god, Look straight at me and you see yourself.

Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes

Wise men say, only fools rush in. Wise men are so slow.

Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool’s errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term market or economic assessments largely irrelevant.

But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.

There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away... a bigger fool than when he came to it.

Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.

A fool and his money are soon parted. It takes creative tax laws for the rest.

You can't fool an audience with lots of bits and pieces. You have to lead them somewhere.

Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.

There is no fool like an old fool.

Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn't brotherly -- who lived mostly under his parents' roof . . . who advocated one day's work and six days "off" as the weekly round and was considered a bit of a fool in his hometown . . . is probably the American writer who tells us best how to live comfortably with our most constant companion, ourselves.

Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.

Life is not fair...Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.

Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools

Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.

Only a fool wants a confrontation and only a fool wants a strike.

Only fools worship their tools

The biggest fool may come out with a bit of sense when you least expect it.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to.

Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?

What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head.

A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.

A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.

There are no fools so troublesome as those of the mind

Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.

I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing.

I've got a hangover." "No, you hit your head on the floor." "I can't stay. I've got to rescue that fool Sophie.

Busy old fool, unruly Sophie

Fools are without number.

Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by.

Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.

I’m not a cuckoo, either. I’m a fool is what.

There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.

It is a fool's sheep that breaks loose twice.

The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.

I'm the kind of person, I think a lot about everything. Nothin' I can do about it. It's like, I'm a thinkin' fool. That's a big part of me.

The wise men were all fools, what to do?

What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.

Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

We are all fools in love

Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.

and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter

We have people who are based in their emotions and so they're hurt. It doesn't hurt me, a fool doesn't hurt me. As far as I'm concerned, me personally, it's like it never happened.

Her nudity is her armor. It blinded the drooling fools. They couldn't see anything else while they saw her body.

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

Recording wasn't as important to me as actually being to get on stage and act the fool.

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

He who takes offense when offense was not intended is a fool, yet he who takes offense when offense is intended is an even greater fool for he has succumbed to the will of his adversary.

It is bad enough to see young fools, but worse to see old fools.

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.

Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.

Ah, fool! faint heart fair lady ne'er could win.

About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut up.

This is one of theprimary mechanisms whereby, if a fool says the sun is shining, we do notcorrectly discard this as irrelevant nonevidence, but rather find ourselvesimpelled to say that it must be dark outside.

My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them.

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!

Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.

Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.

Knaves starve not in the land of fools.

Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.

When I left school I went on trip around the world-I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.

But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?

What have you done when you have bested a fool?

When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool

The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow them.

Only a fool can believe people are basically good

Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.

So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make him aggressive. A fool must therefore be treated more cautiously than a scoundrel.

Several people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses.

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.

Fortune, that favors fools.

He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.