Quotes about fools

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“I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart.”

“You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living.”

“I suppose […] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.”

“Listen, son—most women are damn fools and children. But they’ve got more range than we’ve got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better—and the vile ones are viler.”

“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”

“There had never been a shortage of fools in the world”

“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.”

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

“They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much”

“What sense did the world make? Where was God, the Bloody Fool? Did He have no notion of fair and unfair? Couldn't He read a simple balance sheet? He would have been sacked long ago if He were managing a corporation, the things he allowed to happen…”

“A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.”

“I was a fool! Loving someone who doesn't love you is hell! Don't ever let anyone convince you that you can be happy with someone who doesn't love you.”

“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”

“I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.”

“So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.”

“Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.”

“The garden where you sit
Has never a need of flowers,
For you are the blossoms
And only a fool or the blind
Would fail to know it”

“I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.”

“I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.”

“I fool you. I fool everyone.”

“We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.”

“Then you're a bigger fool than I thought. Since when has any man ever been worthy of the woman he loved? It's only by God's grace that they love us in spite of ourselves.”

“There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.”

“It's better to be silent than to be a fool.”

“I think the only answer is to live life to the fullest while you can and collect memories like fools collect money. Because in the end, that's all you have - happy memories.”

“Many a good argument is ruined by some fool who knows what he is talking about.”

“I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.”

“I think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts. And then when it's gone, it's like there's nothing left of you at all… except what you can't be rid of.”

“You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.”

“Of all the causes which conspire to blind
Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind,
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.”

“How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool?
Fitz in Assassin's Apprentice”

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot, missionary to Auca indians in Ecuador”

“Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay”

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people, some of the time, but you can fool yourself anytime you need to badly enough.”

“I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.”

“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”

“Stop running, you fools!" Kronos yelled. "Stand and ACKK!"
That last part was because a panicked Hyperborean giant stumbled backwards and sat on top of him. The lord of time disappeared under a giant blue butt.”

“A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.”

“You can’t fool people into loving you.”

“If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.”

“The lions sing and the hills take flight.
The moon by day, and the sun by night.
Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool.
Let the Lord of Chaos rule.”

“He could cheat on me and he would never tell me, and he would think less and less of me for not figuring it out. He would see me across the breakfast table, innocently slurping cereal, and know that I am a fool, and how can anyone respect a fool?”

“We are all the fools of time and terror: Days
Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live,
Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.”

“Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".”

“Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.”

“I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ”

“I’ll distract them,” Carter said. “You search. The Trophy room is through there.”
“Carter!”
But the fool ran off to protect me. I hate when he does that.”

“A man who trusts everyone is a fool, and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools, if we live long enough.”

“Once, maybe I would have thought you a fool, but… well, that's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion? You have to shut out that voice that whispers about betrayal, and just hope that your friends aren't going to hurt you.”

“We're taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don't have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool let's somebody tell them who the enemy is.”

“I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools. I like a twist of meaning. I endure.”

“Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.”

“If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.”

“You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.”

“Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.”

“Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?"

"I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.”

“In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes.”

“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.”

“In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.”

“What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.”

“Only a fool took a remote from a god.”

“When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.”

“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.”

“You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.”

“It is not much good being wise among fools and sane among lunatics.”

“Gonna change my way of thinking, make my self a different set of rules. Gonna put my good foot forward and stop being influenced by fools.”

“Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.”

“It isn't very pretty to have been made a fool of by one's own feelings,' he said. 'To take childish promises and build a--a castle out of them…”

“You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.”

“Only a fool is not afraid.”

“Dieting fooled you into thinking you could control your life.”

“An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else…”

“It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.”

“The first thing you learn in life is you’re a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you’re the same fool.”

“I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good.
I know too much to be good. I know myself.
I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly.”

“Maybe we all just want to feel special, even for a little while, to be fooled for a bit into feeling something besides the truth of our own ordinariness.”

“Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool,
But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every fool is not a poet.”

“Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.”

“The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.”

“Fool! You may hate me… But I… I haven't stopped thinking of you for a single day.”

“Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.”

“You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.”

“What-ifs are for fools”

“The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.”

“There's no point in comforting words, in telling her she'll be all right. She's no fool. Her hand reaches out and I clutch it like a lifeline. As if it's me who's dying instead of Rue.”

“Any fool can spend money. But to earn it and save it and defer gratification—then you learn to value it differently.”

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

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

“Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.”

“In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.”

“I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented.
“Love does not make you a fool.”
“He didn’t love me back.”
“That does not make you a fool, either.”
“Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?”
“Sometimes never.”

“Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine.”

“Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.”

“I know you're right. I'm just low, and when I'm low I talk like a fool.”

“I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right, lest you make your father a fool.”

“If you or one of the blind fools who follows you honestly believe you can… bring it on. I'm in the mood for Slaughter. Killing and Murder, too.

~ Jericho a. k. a. Cratus”

“We are all fools blessed with the knowledge that certain events will come to pass no matter what path we take to get there. The wise ones follow their angels while they may.”

“Anyone who makes up their mind about an issue before they hear the issue is a fool.”

“Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and such are lovers wherever love is known.”