Quotes About Fool

He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Don't ever let yourself become a fool to your loyalty.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it

You're in a physical landscape you share with this bizarre and fundamentally alien creature, not alien because she's female but alien because you're a fool in love and there's nothing not alien about that.

There are two schools of thought about Ringo: (1) he was a brilliant drummer who made the Beatles possible, or (2) he was a clod who got lucky, the biggest fool who ever hit the big time.

Name the season's first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year.

A mere scholar, a mere ass.

It is occasionally used to imitate the court jester, who plays the fool but knows he is smarter than the king. He talks and talks and entertains, and no one suspects that he is more than just a fool.

It is occasionally wiser to imitate the court jester, who plays the fool but knows he is smarter than the king.

The wise man profits more from his enemies, than a fool from his friends. (Baltasar Gracián, 1601-1658)

any rash fool can be a hero if he sets no value on his life, or hasn't the wit to appreciate danger. But to understand the risk, perhaps even to flinch at first, but then to summon the strength to face them down - that in my opinion is the most commendable form of valour

ma a Roma un uomo onesto era un uomo raro: cioè un cretino.

You can always spot a fool, for he is the man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election. But an election is a living thing -- you might almost say, the most vigorously alive thing there is -- with thousands upon thousands of brains and limbs and eyes and thoughts and desires, and it will wriggle and turn and run off in directions no one ever predicted, sometimes just for the joy of proving the wiseacres wrong.

YOU CAN ALWAYS SPOT A FOOL, for he is the man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election

Both of them? Mat spluttered. Light! Two! Oh, burn me! He's the luckiest man in the world or the biggest fool since creation!

If you can't hide what you are going to do, do it so everybody thinks you are a fool.

Only a fool believed women less dangerous than men, but women often seemed to think men fools when it came to women.

He was as much a fool as any man or woman. He just had enough experience to recognize it. It took a few seasons before a man could put that together.

A man who trusts everyone is a fool, Lews Therin said, and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools, if we live long enough.

A sword is dangerous to the man at the point, but not to the man at the hilt. Unless the man holding the sword is a fool, or careless, or unskilled, in which case it i twice as dangerous to him as to anyone else.

A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.

A fool moans when fortune takes him down, and it takes a true fool to moan when fortune takes him up.

He has never been a fool except for a pair of eyes or a pretty ankle, the gray-haired woman said, and that is a failing of every man.

Mat relaxed. His part of it was begun, according to plan. A hasty departure on short notice as if he were trying to sneak away south, but showy enough to make sure it was noticed. The combination would make him seem a fool, and that was to the good, too.