Quotes About Fool

A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool. But you yourself may prove to show it, Every fool is not a poet.

The fool is happy that he knows no more

Out with it, Dunciad: let the secret pass - That secret to each fool - that he's an ass. The truth once told (and whereby should we lie?), The queen of Midas slept, and so may I. You think this cruel? Take it for a rule, No creature smarts so little as a fool.

The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.

You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.

I was watching TV, and there was a girl acting a fool. And I was like, 'I could do that.'

Fresh, clean water cannot be taken for granted. And it is not - water is political, and litigious. Transporting water is impractical for both political and physical reasons, so buying up water rights did not make a lot of sense to me, unless I was pursuing a greater fool theory of investment - which was not my intention.

The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.

Only a genius can play a fool.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

I went on the 'Letterman' show the first time to plug something, and then I came back as the Fool, the court jester.

Man was made to be immortal; else, he could not survive being the fool he is.

At the top of a hill our automobile stuck in a snowdrift. Peasants ran out of a cottage near by, shouting with laughter because machinery had made a fool of itself, and dug out the automobile with incredible rapidity. They were doubtless anxious to get back and tell a horse about it.

He was insane. She'd thrown her lot in with a moonstruck fool. "Yes,

Wolfe snorted. "The man's a fool. It's only a cow pasture." Being a good detective, he produced his evidence by pointing to a brown circular heap near our feet.

him. They'd talk of him as a hero when in reality he was a bloody fool, a sitting duck. This was a bombing mission that should never have been flown.

Look at us all -- we are all of us lost and in all of our different ways of pretending, we all fool ourselves into the very same hell. Look at the cross -- we are all of us loved and one God meets us all at the point of our common need and brings to all of us -- all who will let Him -- salvation.

Only a fool never changes his mind.

The distinguished economist and philosopher Amartya Sen famously called people who always give nothing in this game rational fools for blindly following only material self-interest: "The purely economic man is indeed close to being a social moron. Economic theory has been much preoccupied with this rational fool.

In this instance, she understood completely what the endorsement of a fool was worth.

This was what Miss Beryl had been coming back to, all day, all her life probably, to the mystery of affection, of the heart inclining in one direction and not another, of its unexpected, unwished-for pirouettes, its ability to make a fool, a villain, of its owner, if indeed any human can be said to own his heart. "I know this," she'd told Clive Sr. that long-ago afternoon. "Love is a stupid thing.

Leo couldn't help smiling. That could be fun. Fun she said unhappily. Blue elephants. Blue elephants. Kiss me you fool. You fool.

Teach you to try marrying me, you idiot!