Quotes About Fool

There are two ways to be fooled: one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe what is true." Another translation says:"There are two ways to be fooled: one is to believe what isn't so; the other is to refuse to believe what is so.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.

What a strange creature is a laughing fool, As if a man were created to no useBut only to show his teeth.

Even if doors are open to the fool, he/she will still be foolish in accessing them.

You can't force feed a fool. They are blind to their need.

A fool's tongue," Bruce Waltke wryly notes, "is long enough to cut his own throat."4

Maybe he loves her. Maybe he wishes to have her forever, maybe he wishes that she could be his bride. Even then he might lose much to be with her-his properties, his position. But next to his love for her, what meaning do they have? He would be a fool to treasure dead gold more then a live heart.

No one but a fool, and only a fool of a peculiar description, feels offended by the acknowledgment that there are others whose opinion, and even whose wish, is entitled to a greater amount of consideration than his.

I fear you are a fool, but it is a holy foolishness.

If you can pretend well enough to fool someone else, you might even fool yourself.

What a strange creature is a laughing fool, As if a man were created to no use But only to show his teeth.

You spend nearly a year of your life and sweat, because you have faith in the dream of a fool. And what have you got? Nothing.

Don't you ever do that to me." "You know you'll never make as much of a fool of yourself as Horatio Augustus. So I won't have to.

because a man is always a fool until he is made to realize the extent of his folly

You know this town. It's not different from other towns. The newspaper doesn't speak for them. Not everybody here is a damned fool. And, as usual, the less a fool a man is the quieter he keeps.

He is a fool who is not for love and beauty.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

The progression of pleasures is from the distich to the quatrain, from the quatrain to the sonnet, from the sonnet to the ballad, from the ballad to the ode, from the ode to the cantata, from the cantata to the dithyramb. The husband who commences with dithyramb is a fool.

For my part, I like those long trials of the old-fashioned chivalry. That lout of a young lord, who took offence because his sovereign-lady sent him down among the lions to fetch her glove, was, in my opinion, very impertinent, and a fool too. Doubtless the lady had in reserve for him some exquisite flower of love, which he lost, as he well deserved—the puppy!

It has been said that he is a fool who works for philosophy instead of making philosophy work for him; but a man cannot give to the world even a little of a true philosophy without reaping sevenfold himself.

Jones was a marching band fool. He did take the fifteen thousand, used a thousand of it to repaint the exterior of the school building, and sunk the rest of it in new instruments and uniforms for the band.

A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn't ability that counts, but authority.