Quotes About Fool

Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must be waged with a savage joy in defeating the enemy, and it is that savage joy that inspires our bards to write their greatest songs about love and war.

Chi non conosce la verità è soltanto uno sciocco; ma chi, conoscendola, la chiama bugia, è un malfattore!

Idiot spelled backward," said Phil, cackling.

When I knew a thing or two, pride kept me blind. I was a like a rutting buck, mind so stained I imagined "I'm a buddha." Then bit by bit I approached the truly wise-minded and saw myself a fool-- pride was a fever that finally broke.

A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control.

He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.

You charming idiot.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

The common man is a fool.

Desire makes me laugh because it makes fools of us all. Still, rather a fool than a fascist.

I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.

A fool does not see the same trees a wise man sees.

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.

He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.

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.