Quotes About Fool

Laughter is a luxury reflex which could arise only in a creature whose reason has gained a degree of autonomy from the urges of emotion, and enables him to perceive his own emotions as redundant-to realize that he has been fooled.

All the pride and pleasure of the world, mirrored in the dull consciousness of a fool, are poor indeed compared with the imagination of Cervantes writing his Don Quixote in a miserable prison.

It is really most absurd to wish to turn this scene of misery into a pleasure spot and set ourselves the goal of achieving pleasures and joys instead of freedom from pain, as so many do. Those who, with too gloomy a gaze, regard this world as a kind of hell and, accordingly, are only concerned with procuring a fireproof room in it, are much less mistaken. The fool runs after the pleasures of life and sees himself cheated; the sage avoids evils.

Of how many a man may it not be said that hope made a fool of him until he danced into the arms of death!

Did I envy a man who could afford to throw away an expensive piece of paper on a short note, or think him a fool?

Did I envy a man who could afford to throw away an expensive piece of paper on a short note, or think him a fool? In any case, I carefully tore the clean end of the sheet from the written area and tucked it into my drawer to save for my own letters.

We're taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don't have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.

Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.

Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent.

Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants: money will not give him a code of values, if he's evaded the knowledge of what to value, and it will not provide him with a purpose, if he's evaded the choice of what to seek. Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent.

Las imágenes de vuestra creación, así como de la mía propia, contienen —desde una perspectiva racional— una buena dosis de ridiculez, dado que la intención de la perfección que no logra su propósito es tanto más ridícula cuanta mayor sabiduría se haya empleado en ella. Por ese motivo, la tonterías expresadas por un filósofo resultan más amenas que las tonterías expresadas por un necio.

The fool doth think he is wise, yet it is the wise man that knows himself to be the fool As You Like It, Act 5, Scene 1

They say a fool and his gold are soon parted, but they ought to say too that those who refuse ever to be parted from gold are the greatest fools of all.

I always feel a fool when in the company of people who work for a living. It brings out my startling lack of common sense.

A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.

They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much

Anyone who doesn't think the imagination can kill is a fool.

A man who loves money is a bastard, someone to be hated. A man who can't take care of it is a fool. You don't hate him, but you got to pity him.

and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.

Around and around it went, and what was round had no point, any fool knew that.

They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes they see too much.

A fool shouts charge when he should retreat, A coward shouts retreat when he should charge and a wise man knows the difference. I charge.

Meanwhile 1st April to lie as if they were honest throughout the year.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.