Quotes About Foolery

The time's gone by for sentiment and all that foolery. Mercy's all very well but after all it's justice that clinches the bargain.

What should he do if word went around that in his throne room hung a magic picture that only the highborn could see, but he couldn't? Of course there was no picture there, it had been one of the fool's jokes, but now that the canvas hung there, it had developed its own power.

The whole world has been fooled in the name of corona and lockdown. Very well said by that Delhi couple who refused to pay challan for not putting up mask. Hats off to their bravery

"Convey," the wise it call. "Steal" ' foh! a fico for the phrase!

Alas, how love can trifle with itself!

The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.

It takes a surprisingly large amount of intelligence to be a professional idiot.

When a woman plays the fool, look for the man.

Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.

The self-anointed superior races, drunk on Darwin and nationalist hyperbole, besotted with eugenics and beguiled by myth, were winding up machines of genocide that soon would be unleashed upon a world already weary to the heart of such infinite foolery and contemptible vainglory.

Because the comic hero deviates, by the nature of his role, from social norms, he leads an alienated existence: he is slapped, reviled, insulted, treated as an outcast, disinherited. Yet he bears everything with the rigid patience of the wise Fool, whose foolery is in his passport to safety. (In his introduction to Habiby's Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist)

Because the comic hero deviates, by the nature of his role, from social norms, he leads an alienated existence: he is slapped, reviled, insulted, treated as an outcast, disinherited. Yet he bears everything with the rigid patience of the wise Fool, whose foolery is in his passport to safety. (In her introduction to Habiby's Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist)

For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well.

When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat;Yet, fool'd with hope, men favor the deceit;Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay.Tomorrow's falser than the former day.

Most people are finding it difficult to digest that they have been fooled in the name of pandemic by those who occupy big chair and have vested-interest as wanted to sell their material ware, but most surprising thing to note is that duffers still continue to wear mask over their mouth in big numbers everywhere

Too many people are so much fool/fake that if a person does not make out to be one of them, then he will look often odd to them and even may be called a half-crack by many out of those foolish/pretentious pack

This Nicholas anon leet fle a fart As greet as it had been a thonder-dent, That with the strook he was almoost yblent; And he was redy with his iren hoot, And Nicholas amydde the ers he smoot. Of gooth the skyn an hande-brede aboute, The hoote kultour brende so his toute, And for the smert he wende for to dye.

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

Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the whole world.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.

Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have ... the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality ... which, from time to time, reveals itself to be vain and illusory.

Not yet! said she [Goneril], trying to roll me over and get back to smacking my bum. She honked my codpiece. You honked my codpiece. Aye, give it up, fool. [...]

The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.