Fool Quotes · Page 75

I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one…

— Harold Brodkey

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

— Anonymous

“Please, help me. Young werewolves in love. I turned to walk into the house, moving carefully. I had never much believed in…

— Jim Butcher

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

Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.

— Horace

“If I choose to take the pen from God and write the story of my life without Him, I better have plenty…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Fools carry their daggers in their open mouths.

— Josh Billings

We were totally opposite - me coming from the West Coast and a junior college, and him [ Christopher Reeve] from the…

— Robin Williams

“The difference between the rich and the poor, is finding true love.”

— Anthony Liccione

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference…

— Andre Maurois

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

— Barry Goldwater

The constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

— John Ciardi

Avoid the politic, the factious fool, The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave; The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason, Calls…

— Thomas Otway

Regret's kind of like a fool's game.

— Willam Belli

Don't let expertise fool you into seeing false boundaries or underestimating those with wild dreams.

— Naveen Jain

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

— Bruce Lee

Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.

— John Dryden

Whoever thou art, whatever in other respects thy life may be, my friend, by ceasing to take part (if ordinarily thou doest)…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.

— Athol Fugard

“Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Eden Phillpotts

Whether he likes it or not, [he] cannot remain incognito forever. He has outraged too many wise men and pleased too many…

— Orson Scott Card

I saw a fleet of fishing boats...I flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on…

— Charles Lindbergh

He is no fool who parts with that which he cannot keep, when he is sure to be recompensed with that which…

— Jim Elliot

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

— Hunter S. Thompson

No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get married.

— Freddie Mercury

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson…

— Emma Goldman

Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have…

— Thomas Jefferson

The only man you will ever get is some fool named Grady who falls asleep in his soup.

— Will Smith

But it's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin And can't stand the company. Every fool's got a…

— Bruce Springsteen

Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise.

— Bernard De Bonnard

Fool me once; fool me twice; but shame on me if you fool me thrice.

— Nabil N Jamal

I do not hope somebody breaks in. However, if they did, I pity them. I pity the fool that breaks into my…

— Amber Heard

Love is your master, for he masters you; And he that is so yoked by a fool Methinks should not be chronicled…

— William Shakespeare

The most trying fools are the bright ones.

— Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved,…

— George Crabbe

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad…

— Peter Ustinov

Don't let the American twang fool you. I still say, 'I'm going home,' when I come to England, and I love a…

— Lily Collins