Fool Quotes · Page 76

“I like this book and I especially like the title. Only a fool or a whore would call it anything else.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

— Mark Kingwell

A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.

— William Hazlitt

Those are fools however learned Who have not learned to walk with the world.

— Anonymous

Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Marshall McLuhan

Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.

— William Blake

He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.

— Johann Ludwig Tieck

Look down on me, you will see a fool. Look up at me, you will see your Lord. Look straight at me,…

— Charles Manson

All our yesterdays, it is true, have only lighted fools the way to dusty death. But we need at least the dates…

— Stephen Leacock

And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle…

— Nora Ephron

There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work…

— Moliere

So, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies,…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing…

— Anonymous

I gripped the stapler even harder and felt like a fool planning to battle a crazy man with a stapler that even,…

— Charlaine Harris

If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.

— William H. Gass

The indispensability of reason does not imply that individual people are always rational or are unswayed by passion and illusion. It only…

— Steven Pinker

You either decide to take the easy way out, which means you're only going to disappoint yourself and everybody else, or you…

— Christian Bale

We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first wisdoms. So acknowledging foolishness is always…

— Chogyam Trungpa

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island…

— Henry David Thoreau

A traveler amid the scenery of the Alps, surrounded by the sublimest demonstration of God's power, had the hardihood to write against…

— George Barrell Cheever

What took you so long?” Nash asked, as he slid into the passenger seat and pulled the door closed. “I stopped to…

— Rachel Vincent

Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humaneness is nothing…

— Marquis de Sade

God knows that any man who would seek the presidency of the United States is a fool for his pains. The burden…

— Woodrow Wilson

If you get up everyday and you don't learn you are a fool

— Marcus Garvey

When you have twin four-year-olds, you are able to dance like a fool, often. And I do.

— Neil Patrick Harris

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

— Eden Phillpotts

“wise person is hungry for knowledge,     while the fool feeds on atrash.+”

— Tyndale

“The fool has said in his heart: pass me another Everlasting God-Stopper, please.”

— M.J. McGuire

“Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.”

— James Baldwin

Now listen. You can't fool all the people all the time-- but I want you to try.

— Andrew Tobias

I gave you my everything and yet you treated me like a fool... YOU PLAYED ME. :]

— Shaira C

I nEvEr lOokEd oR puRpOsE any-oNE elSe bcAuz I aM an giftEd iDiOt tOo my bEautifUl QuEen...!!!

— Talha Siddiqui

He who does not believe that God is above all is either a fool or has no experience of life

— Christopher Morley

IF THE FOOL I AM IS WHAT MAKE YOU HAPPY,THEN I WANNA BE A FOOL FOR LIFE

— JAH REIGN

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

— Bernard of Clairvaux

“It is better to be foolish wise than wise foolish.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A laughing fool ... seems born for nothing but to show his teeth.

— George Pope Morris

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool,

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

— Josh Billings