Quotes about fool
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“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.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

Love, Fools, Way, Nature

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

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

Fools

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

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

Fools

“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.”

Robin Hobb book Fool's Assassin

Source: Fool's Assassin

Fools, Bee, Parting

“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”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dream Warrior

Fools, Mood

“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.”

Alethea Kontis (1976) American writer

Source: Enchanted

Fools, Angels, Knowledge

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

Chris Rock (1965) American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director

Fools

“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.”

Edgar Rice Burroughs book A Princess of Mars

Source: A Princess of Mars

Love, Fools, Lovers, Suffering

“… there’s also nothing noble about being fearless. How much do you wanna bet the last man standing in a battle is usually the biggest fool of all?” - Paul Hudson”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

Fools

“Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.”

Stephen King book Wizard and Glass

Source: Wizard and Glass

Fools

“I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

Fools

“For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.”

Paul McCartney (1942) English singer-songwriter and composer

Source: Paul McCartney, Composer/Artist

World, Fools

“I was foolish because I believed in you. You are a fool because you believe in yourself!”

J. California Cooper (1931–2014) American playwright, novelist. short story writer

Source: In Search of Satisfaction

Fools

“It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.”

Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker

Variant: Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself

Fools, Courage, Courageous

“I fool everybody!”

Lisa Scottoline (1955) American writer

Source: Every Fifteen Minutes

Fools

“I have your word?”
“You trust my word?”
“You’re an idealistic fool. Of course.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Faefever

Fools

“I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others -- The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Sadness, Fools, Sad

“Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: Art and Lies

Fools, Wine

“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)
Source: The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days

Wisdom, Fools, Deep

“I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so
In whining poetry.”

John Donne (1572–1631) English poet

The Triple Fool, stanza 1
Source: The Complete English Poems

Love, Fools

“Honor is a fool's prize. Glory is of no use to the dead.”

Drew Karpyshyn book Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction

Source: Path of Destruction

Fools, Dead

“nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others”

Philip Roth book The Plot Against America

Source: The Plot Against America

Fate, Fools

“He took one look at me and said, ‘Damn, you cleaned up better than I thought you would.’ (Grace)
I worry about the men of your time, Grace. They all seem to be great fools. (Julian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Fantasy Lover

Source: Fantasy Lover

Men, Fools, Time

“Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.”

Philip Sidney book Astrophel and Stella

Sonnet 1,Concluding couplet from Loving in truth,and fain in verse my love to show
Compare: "Look, then, into thine heart and write", Henry W. Longfellow, Voices of the Night, Prelude.
Variant: Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
"Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.
Source: Astrophel and Stella (1591)
Context: .... But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay,
Invention, Nature's child, fled step-dame Study's blows,
And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way.
Thus great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes,
Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
"Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart and write."

Fools, Heart

“If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool; in you it is a sign of the disarming simplicity which is the fount of all virtue.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Amulet of Samarkand

Source: The Amulet of Samarkand

Fools, Question

“I am so stupid, so easily fooled. It's really almost funny. If I could lift a finger I would gladly kill myself.”

Will Christopher Baer Kiss Me, Judas

Source: Kiss Me, Judas

Stupidity, Fools

“[I]t is the wine that leads me on,
the wild wine
that sets the wisest man to sing
at the top of his lungs,
laugh like a fool – it drives the
man to dancing… it even
tempts him to blurt out stories
better never told.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

Source: The Odyssey

Fools, Wine, Singing, Dance

“The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.”

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

Dogs
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy

Pleasure, Dogs, Fools

“Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality!”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

Fools, Reality, Appearance

“Why'd you want to sing about sad things?" Candy had asked him.
"Because any fool can be happy," he'd said to her.
"It takes a man with real heart"
—he'd made a fist and laid it against his chest—
"to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”

Clive Barker Days of Magic, Nights of War

Source: Days of Magic, Nights of War

Happiness, Sadness, Beauty, Fools

“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 (1897–1962) American writer

Fools

“Only fools don't contradict themselves”

André Gide (1869–1951) French novelist and essayist

Fools

“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 How to Win Friends and Influence People

Part 1 : Fundamental Techniques in Handling People, p. 36.
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936)
Context: Benjamin Franklin, tactless in his youth, became so diplomatic, so adroit at handling people that he was made American Ambassador to France. The secret of his success? "I will speak ill of no man," he said, "... and speak all the good I know of everybody." Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving. "A great man shows his greatness," says Carlyle, "by the way he treats little men."

Fools, Forgiveness, Understanding

“That's good; don't deny it. Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar. In this profession, you can be one- sometimes the other. But never both.”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

Fools

“To bankrupt a fool, give him information.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Fools

“Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

God, Fools

“The Operative tried to implement the Purusey breathing technique, which has been proven effective at fooling polygraphs. There is no conclusive evidence as to
whether it is effective at masking the internal lie detectors of fifteen-year-old boys.”

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Lie, Fools, Boy

“He that hath truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because fo other mens's opinions.”

Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) English trader, writer and journalist

Men, Truth, Fools

“Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Pearls of Wisdom

Fools, Intelligence, Heart

“It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous.
Resign yourself to be the fool you are…
… We must always take risks. That is our destiny…”

T.S. Eliot The Cocktail Party

Source: The Cocktail Party

Fools

“Any fool can make a rule
And every fool will mind it.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

February 3, 1860
Journals (1838-1859)
Source: http://thoreau.library.ucsb.edu/writings_journals_pdfs/J15f4-f6.pdf#page=289
Source: Journal #14

Fools

“You bit de Quincey," he said. "You fool. He's a vampire. You know what it means to bite a vampire."
"I had no choice," said Will. "He was choking me."
"I know," Jem said. "But really, Will. Again?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Variant: Jem shook his head. "You bit de Quincey" he said. "You fool. He's a VAMPIRE"

"I had no choice" said Will " He was choking me"

"I know" Jem said. " But really Will, AGAIN?
Source: Clockwork Angel

Fools

“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”

Clive Barker Days of Magic, Nights of War

Source: Days of Magic, Nights of War

Happiness, Beauty, Fools, Heart