Quotes about fool

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“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.”

“… 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”

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

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

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

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

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

“I fool everybody!”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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)”

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

“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.”

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

“[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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Only fools don't contradict themselves”

“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”

“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.”

“To bankrupt a fool, give him information.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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…”

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

“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?”

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

“There is no fool like an educated fool…”

“Busy old fool, unruly Sophie”

“A wise man can be a fool in love.”

“What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only, that our illusions change as we go on; but, still, we are madmen all the same.”

“Vote, v. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.”

“I am not a fool, you know, although I am a woman, and have my woman’s moments.”

“I could only stare, any sense that maybe I understood him evaporating as it always did. I'd glimpse something underneath, and he'd snatched it away so fast it left bruises that called me a fool for hoping for more.”

“I'd rather look a fool than be right and fail to act.”

“Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.”

“If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.”

“Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.”

“The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar… Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.”

“Compromise is a stalling between two fools.”

“Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”

“This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.”

“Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.”

“Choose now,' he spat, his eyes practically shooting sparks. 'Me or him.'

'Gosh, Fang, you romantic fool,' I said sarcastically. 'How incredibly sexist-pig of you.”

“wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom”

“Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.”

“Any woman who counts on her face is a fool.”

“To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.”

“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”

“Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.”

“Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.”

“Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.”

“Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.”

“On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen…”

“A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.”

“Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle them about, add a dash of excitement, a little color, and there you have it.”

“Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others’ experience.”

“He who poses as a fool is not a fool.”

“We'd be fools not to ride this strange torpedo all the way out to the end.”

“He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.”

“I'll publish right or wrong:
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.”

“The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.”

“Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.”

“so whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.”

“Even a fool learns something once it hits him.”

“I’m afraid of everything. Fear of being alone, fear of being hurt, fear of being made a fool of, fear of failure… Still, I think all my fears bleed from one big one…”

“Why do I feel like I can't trust you anymore?'

I wanted him to lash out. I wanted him to fight, to protest, to argue- to do anything but look deeper into my eyes and say, 'because the Gallagher Academy doesn't admit fools”

“It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.”

“Leo couldn't help smiling. "That could be fun."
"Fun" she said unhappily.
"Blue elephants."
"Blue elephants."
"Kiss me you fool."
"You fool.”

“Coaxing drunken Shadowhunters into making fools of themselves was a favorite occupation among the Downworlders, and this performance had been a tremendous success.”

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

“Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!”

“Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.”

“Only a fool is never afraid, Frank. Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job’s got to get done”

“I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.”

“My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.'
We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.”

“Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby.”

“The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.”

“All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.”

“Strangers see you the way you want them to see you. You can't fool friends…that's what makes them friends…
Pretty Little Liars”

“To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.”

“Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.”

“Only a fool worries over what he can’t control.”

“Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.”