Quotes About Fool

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

Verily a prosperous fool is a heavy load.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed

A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.

It's awfully easy to appear silly, Mr. Clement. It's one of the easiest things in the world.

Men have courage-one knows that...but they are more easily deceived than women.

What beats me—it always does—is how a man can be so clever and yet be such a perfect fool.

As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

With my own pupils now I always try to remember the value of encouragement. Sometimes a callow youth appears who may be a fool or may be a genius and I would rather be guilty of encouraging a fool than of discouraging a genius.

But God, whatever else He is, and of course He is everything else, is not a fool.

I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

A real coward would have run away and never looked back. Fear isn't a weakness. Anybody who's never been afraid is a fool.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

You'd be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is not a statement against people in the money business, just a fact.

Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.

Do not entertain the fool unless you want the joke to be on you..

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

Only a fool is always certain,

Smile while you can,' Hettie Close had scrawled in ink almost as faded as the print above it. 'Smile like the skull you'll be, you fool, before you're worse than bones.

Ten thousand times a million sons of sons move Through one great and towering town Wearing their wits, which means their laughter, As their crown. Set free upon the earth By simple gifts of knowing how mere mirth can cut the bonds And pull the blood spikes out; Their conversation shouts of "Fool!"

That so much time was wasted in this pain. Ten thousand years ago he might have let off down To not return again! A dreadful laugh at last escapes his lips; The laughter sets him free. A Fool lives in the Universe! he cries. The Fool is me! And with one final shake of laughter Breaks his bonds. The nails fall skittering to marble floors. And Christ, knelt at the rail, sees miracle As Man steps down in amiable wisdom To give himself what no one else can give: His liberty.