Quotes About Fool

My foolproof plan might not be proof against this-meaning I was the fool.

Only a fool would be dishonest about that could be disproved in a matter of seconds.

and at the critical moment, when the old fool was leaning over the chair at an angle of forty-five, and trying to reach a point three inches beyond what was possible for him to reach, the string would slip, and down he would slide on to the piano, a really fine musical effect being produced by the suddenness with which his head and body struck all the notes at the same time.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

Those who have themselves for a spiritual director have a fool for a spiritual director.

The love of Christ comes from simple people who love simple people. Never be fooled by the spiritual leader who knows a lot but doesn't love a lot.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

You must on no account attempt to use the squares given in the Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage until you have succeeded in the Operation. More, unless you mean to perform it, and are prepared to go to any length to do so, you are a fool to have the book in your possession at all. Those squares are liable to get loose and do things on their own initiative; and you won't like it.

A rock is heavy and sand is weighty too, but the anger of a fool is heavier than both.

As for herself, she returned to her seat with a smile of savage scorn upon her lips, and she blasphemously repeated the fearful name of that God by whom she had just sworn, without ever having learned to know Him. My God! said she. Fanatical fool! -My God is myself; and whoever will assist in my revenge!

I'm just struck by how absolutely certain we can be about things for which there is no objective certainty. How stubborn. And how often we can fool ourselves.

How can an unexamined piety differ from the blind gropings of the fool? What is the hallmark of wisdom in this fallen world? The answer is joy at the end of the tether. But before we can learn joy at the end of the tether, we must learn the strength of that tether. The Lord is God and we are not.

Honor is a fool's prize. Glory is of no use to the dead.

Equality is a myth to protect the weak. some of us are strong in the Force, others are not. Only a fool believes otherwise.

Honor is a fool's prize," Bane replied, reciting a passage from one of the volumes he had recently read in the archives. "Glory is of no use to the dead.

Today I told myself that in actual fact anyone who takes an innocuous and random delight in his life is an absolute lummox.

Why not make an end of it all?... My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings.... What is death?... A very small matter,when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

The fool's life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

If there is a witness to my little life,To my tiny throes and struggles,He sees a fool;And it is not fine for gods to menace fools.

Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.

We sort of tell ourselves what we want to hear and the more we do that, the more we begin to agree with ourselves—and maybe get fooled into thinking what is wrong is actually right.

A fool must now and then be right by chance. —WILLIAM COWPER

Do I have to ask what you're smiling about?" From the driver;s seat if the Mustang, Zack cut a glance at her, grinning like a fool. "Same thing you are, Mighty Phallus." --Zack to Cori after a morning of good lovin'.