Fool Quotes · Page 88

“It is plain to see, when a great man is not long for this world, for he makes a fool of himself”

— Michael Lieber

Only a fool makes threats, and only another fool feels threatened.

— Paulo Coelho

EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.

— Ambrose Bierce

The reward of the fool is that they make you feel as if you were God.

— Vikrant Parsai

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

— Robert A. Heinlein

Don't forget honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em.

— Mae West

To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.

— David Mitchell

Any damn fool can build homes. What counts is how many you can sell for how little.

— William Levitt

Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.

— Robert Jordan

“I am glad to see that you have enough imagination not to be altogether a fool... Yes, it is want of imagination…

— H. Rider Haggard

...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come,…

— Mark Twain

A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives…

— Eugene O'Neill

My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not…

— Ernest Hemingway

The best way to get away from a crisis and yet hold on the reins without performance is to find a godfather…

— Sourav Ganguly

You don't know Mexico, man. You have trivialized Mexico. You are a fool about Mexico if you think that Mexico is five…

— Richard Rodriguez

Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those…

— Aristotle

I've told my family to tell me when I start missing a beat, before I realise it myself. Everything I do is…

— Terry Wogan

Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out. But pompous fools-guys who are fools…

— Anonymous

Shinsuke Nakamura is probably one of the best wrestlers I've ever been in the ring with. He's very unorthodox. Everything he does…

— A.J. Styles

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice. Celebrities murder their wives and go free. A mother kills her children,…

— Dean Koontz

Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs you of your skills and your judgment, and it blinds you to creative solutions.…

— Harvey Mackay

We looked at each other, and I could see in those big reddened eyes that he was not going to scream. He…

— Ernest Gaines

For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His…

— Alexander Pope

There are a lot of things that got me into working with photos. The main thing is that I saw both what…

— John Heartfield

The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.

— Ernest Hemingway

“If knowing brings sadness, I'd rather be a fool for life”

— m.ralte

A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there

— Stephen Fry

Never argue with a fool. Listeners can't tell which is which.

— Nateman

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

— David Gerrold

She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Please, don't ever use me as a tool, no 'Cause promise is a comfort to a fool.

— Gregory Isaacs

To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight.

— Georges Courteline

“We all know a fool when we see one - but not when we are one.”

— Arnold H. Glasow

“The wise man through an excess of wisdom is made a fool.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think.

— The Talmud

A man never knows what a fool he is until he hears himself imitated by one.

— Herbert Beerbohm Tree

So many, though reluctant to admit it. Shun clever men, and rather suffer fools.

— Ivan Krylov

“I always thought a laughing philosopher a much wiser man than the sniveling one (cmizdrenje)”

— Lynne Withey

“Only a fool would be fighting them, my queen, and though I am a fool, I’m not that foolish. (Lutian)”

— Kinley MacGregor

Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.

— Horace