Quotes About Fool

We're always lucky, I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.

My' she said. 'We're lucky that you found that place.' 'We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.

You cannot win the battle for your soul if you choose to live the life of a fool, neglecting the health of your soul and not taking time to refine who you are.

The fool feels powerful because they have a weapon in their hand; the warrior knows they are powerful when their hands are empty.

LAVINIA: I want to feel love! Love is all beautiful! I never used to know that! I was a fool! We'll be married soon... We'll make an island for ourselves on land and we'll have children and love them and teach them to love life so that they can never be possessed by hate and death!

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.

The function of the fool in the Elizabethan drama, a reference point outside events but inside another kind of logic, the remorseless logic of unreason where all vision is deranged, all action uncoordinated and all responses beyond prediction.

Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

know now I didn't give him enough of the drug to keep him unconscious, but why did he go to the stable instead of going for help? It's probably nothing, I know. But it bugs me. Maybe he just wanted to see the horses, to see if they were all right. Worrying about horses when he's the one in trouble…old fool!

but you've been a fool. Some women take advantage. Once they're married, and they've got a good husband, they think they can do what they like. And if they take him for granted-" she paused significantly- "they just don't bother anymore.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

If your character is just out there acting a fool, viewers are gonna say, 'Why am I watching this?' But if he's whispering, 'I don't really want to die,' there's a level of vulnerability cemented in these bad characters.

Although my values and my morals are old-school, you have to kind of key into the landscape of social media and how the world is progressing. I'd be a fool to sit there and go, 'Yeah, let's use the telephone to telemarket myself'... Social media is something that I definitely have to tap into, to another demographic.

If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

If you're trying to disguise yourself to fool an approaching enemy, then try impersonating a nutsack. Just puff out your cheeks and look uninterested.

But only a fool sails into combat with nature

You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.

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

Now, we know that life is only a stage to play the fool upon as long as the part amuses us. There was one more convenience lacking to modern comfort; a decent easy way to quit that stage; the back stairs to liberty; or, as I said this moment, Death's private door. This… is supplied by the Suicide Club.

I think . . . I think says the brain . . . But the little spire with the eyes of ecstasy On the brain's dome is the life, Not thinking anything, But flaming . . . little fool you will cease Flaming when you flame up to peace.

You are a fool to speak of last great battles, Sam, for the last great battle is always the next one.

The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to the unknowable. The man who bows in that final direction is either a saint or a fool. I have no use for either.

Only a fool believes that life has but one meaning.