Quotes About Fool

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

Be a fool. For love. For yourself. What you think MIGHT possibly make you happy—even for a little while—whatever the cost or good sense might dictate.

But I have said it, and will say it again. I, poor, penniless, plain simple fool that I am, have been ass enough to love you, Lady Laura Standish; and I brought you up here to-day to ask you to share with me—my nothingness. And this I have done on soil that is to be all your own. Tell me that you regard me as a conceited fool,—as a bewildered idiot.

I own that I am fond of politics, and have taken great delight in their study — ("Stupid young fool!" his father said to himself as he read this) — and it has been my dream for years past to have a seat in Parliament at some future time. ("Dream! yes; I wonder whether he has ever dreamed what he is to live upon.")

But these extravagances were due perhaps to whisky-and-water, and that kind of intoxication which comes to certain men from momentary triumphs. Tifto could always be got to make a fool of himself when surrounded by three or four men of rank who, for the occasion, would talk to him as an equal.

I am a fool, Trichy, I do confess it; and am not a bit clever; but don't scold me; you see how humble I am; not only humble but umble, which I look upon to be the comparative, or, indeed, superlative degree. Or perhaps there are four degrees; humble, umble, stumble, tumble; and then, when one is absolutely in the dirt at their feet, perhaps these big people won't wish one to stoop any further.

One seems inclined to think sometimes that any fool might do an honest business.  But fraud requires a man to be alive and wide awake at every turn!

A fool takes in everything he comes across, so that there is no room for anything useful to find a place

Il n'y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux qui ont de l'esprit - Nema neugodnije budale od one koja ima nešto duha.

Whatever fool had penned the nonsense that words could do no harm should be condemned to Tophet's lowest fiery pit. For they did far more damage than mere broken bones that eventually healed. Furious

What have you to say now, my little hero?" the Baron gloated. "That you are a fool, the son of a fool, and the servant of the biggest--

The Duke of Grumareth was always a fool and will always be a fool," Shevraeth said, so lightly it was hard to believe he wasn't joking.

You might contemplate the purpose of a court…" You brainless, twaddling idiot, I thought scornfully. I wished he were before me. I wished I could personally flout him and his busy searchers, and make him look like the fool he was. And watch the reaction, and walk away laughing.

You're drunk as four skunks, you idiot.

A drunk grows sober before a fool grows wise," says my mother, more health to her.

Brett was the left defensemen and veteran all-star for the Chiefs. The same Brett Beckham that Riley had made look like a fool on an earlier breakaway.

A village idiot, in the literal sense, who really loves the truth, even when he only babbles, is in his thinking infinitely superior to Aristotle. He is infinitely nearer to Plato than Aristotle ever was.

Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire. A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Once upon a time there lived an old woman, called Janet Gellatley, who was suspected to be a witch, on the infallible grounds that she was very old, very ugly, very poor, and had two sons, one of whom was a poet, and the other a fool, which visitation, all the neighbourhood agreed, had come upon her for the sin of witchcraft.

A fool's wild speech confounds the wise.

It's amazing how an otherwise intelligent person can become a credulous fool as soon as you mention the words "organic," "authentic," and "Gweneth Paltrow.

Remember what I used to tel you when you were a little girl? 'A fool and her money soon part.' Current-day translation? Stop pissing away your assets at Bloomingdale's.

Only a fool could be in love with death.