Fool Quotes · Page 99

We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

— Ernest Hemingway

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

— Hunter S. Thompson

“better keep your mouth shut and seem stupid than open it and remove all doubt.”

— Emma Donoghue

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.

— John Dryden

We should not fool ourselves. We are not one of the world's top teams any more.

— Franz Beckenbauer

Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.

— Horace

It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of Courage-to move in the opposite direction.

— Albert Einstein

Learning makes a man wise, but a fool is made all the more a fool by it.

— Vikrant Parsai

I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool.…

— Lewis Mumford

Do not cherish suffering. Don't act like a fool. Don't think that your suffering is going to accelerate your spiritual progress.

— Sri Chinmoy

What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass.

— William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

I've learned to feel good when I feel good. it's better to be driven around in a red porsche than to own…

— Charles Bukowski

“So what did you think the devil would look like? If he were red with a tail, horns, and cloven hooves, any…

— Thomas C. Foster

But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions…

— Bill Ayers

If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary…

— Gautama Buddha

The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

— Finley Peter Dunne

When you start a rock n' roll band, you've gotta fake it till you make it. You begin by doin' what you…

— Steven Tyler

I mean, you know, this idea that somebody we disagree with on economic or social policy or something we have to turn…

— William J. Clinton

Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He…

— William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

The eyes of a dog, the expression of a dog, the warmly wagging tail of a dog and the gloriously cold damp…

— Barbara Woodhouse

I'm the youngest of four kids, with three crazy older brothers. Don't let this hair and face fool you - my brothers…

— Mandy Rose

He is a wise man who seeks by every legitimate means to make all the money he can honestly, for money can…

— B. C. Forbes

“After eyeing her for a moment or two, he said: ‘If you let this chance of achieving a respectable alliance slip, you…

— Georgette Heyer

What am I to do with you?" Redd asked. "M-maybe you could-" Jack began. The Cat raised a paw. "I know." "It…

— Frank Beddor

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I suppose that the greatest blindness is to assume the absence of blindness.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

— Andrew Young

A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.

— Josh Billings

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

— Edward Young

Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.

— Samuel Beckett

“My master warned me about you.” “Then he isn’t a complete fool,” Talik said. “Just mostly.”

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Billy Joel

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

— Publilius Syrus

“It was one thing to be fooled, and another thing to be taken for a fool all the time.”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Answer not a fool according to his folly,lest thou also be like unto him.

— Solomon

Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.

— Bruce Springsteen

Being 'Practically Impractical', is like being 'stupid' but self acclamation of being 'street smart'……

— Santanu Mishra

“There are times when it's easier to fool yourself than swallow some jagged piece of reality.”

— John Searles

I prefer to be a fool if that will make me live longer.

— Seun Sanni